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Changing Images of Civil Society: From Protest to Governance book cover

1st Edition

Changing Images of Civil Society From Protest to Governance

Edited By Bruno Jobert, BEATE KOHLER-KOCH Copyright 2008
234 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which representative democracy is combined with bureaucratic implementation. The success of the civil society myth contrasts with and consequently manifests itself in the problems of political and social legitimacy and representation. This book assesses the... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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