Changing Images of Civil Society

From Protest to Governance
Herausgeber: Jobert, Bruno; Kohler-Koch, Beate

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the concept of civil society, the role attributed to civil society in different countries, at different times and historic situations, the reasons for its surfacing and its multiple forms in political discourse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415466141
• ISBN-10: 0415466148
• Artikelnr.: 25427109

Autorenporträt

Bruno Jobert is a Senior Researcher (emeritus) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. Beate Kohler-Koch is Professor at the International Graduate School of the Social Sciences, Bremen, and former Chair for International Relations and European Affairs at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Civil Society and Politics 1. Contending Civil Society Frameworks
2. Framing Civil Society 3. A Democracy Bereft of Parties 4. A Social
Democratic Model of Civil Society? 5. Civil Society Debates in India 6.
China: Creating Civil Society Structures Top Down? Part 2: Civil Society
and Public Policies 1. Incantations and Uses of Civil Society by the
European Commission 2. State, Civil Society and Public Policy in Chile
Today 3. Activating Civil Society 4. Civil Society and Participatory
Governance in South Africa Part 3: Civil Society and Governance 1.
Assessing the Claims of 'Post-Parliamentary' Governance 2. It's About
Participation, Stupid. Is it? - Civil Society Concepts in Comparative
Perspective