Changing Images of Civil Society: From protest to governance

by Jobert; Bruno

• ISBN13: 9780415466141
• ISBN10: 0415466148
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book critically examines the diversity of interpretations and uses of civil society in different political contexts in countries including Sweden, Italy, France and the UK, Poland and Czechoslovakia, South Africa, China, and South America.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. xi
Civil society and politics: contending frameworks and democratic deficits	p. 1
Contending civil-society frameworks: beyond the tutelary model	p. 3
Framing civil society: lessons from Eastern Europe	p. 16
A democracy bereft of parties: anti-political uses of civil society in Italy	p. 32
A social democratic model of civil society?	p. 47
Civil-society debates in India: civil society against political society?	p. 70
China: creating civil-society structures top-down?	p. 87
Civil society and public policies: dilemmas and ambiguities	p. 105
Incantations and uses of civil society by the European Commission	p. 107
State, civil society and public policy in Chile today	p. 120
Activating civil society: differentiated citizen involvement in France and the United Kingdom	p. 133
Civil society and participatory governance in South Africa: the quest for socioeconomic equity in the post-apartheid era	p. 151
Civil society and governance: theoretical appraisals	p. 175
Assessing the claims of 'post-parliamentary' governance: few certainties, much more open questions	p. 177
It's about participation, stupid. Is it? - civil-society concepts in comparative perspective	p. 195
Index	p. 215
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