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Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems book cover

1st Edition

Civil Societies and Social Movements Potentials and Problems

Edited By Derrick Purdue Copyright 2007
248 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available statistics on associations, to ethnographic study of emerging attempts at participant / deliberative... Read more

1. Introduction: Dimensions of Civil Society
Derrick Purdue

SECTION 1: Civic Organizations between State and Society in Emerging Forms of Governance
2. Civic organizations and the State in Putin’s Russia: Co-operation, Co-optation, Confrontation
Suvi Salmenniemi
3. What Happened after the ‘End of History’? Foreign Aid and Civic Organizations in Ukraine
Kateryna Pishchikova
4. Civic Organizations and Local Governance:  Learning from the Experience of Community Networks
John Diamond 

SECTION II: Civic Societies and Social Movements from Local to Global: Arenas for Mobilization and Action
5. Social Movement Scenes: Infrastructures of Opposition in Civil  Society
Sebastian Haunss and Darcy K. Leach 
6. Between Horizontal Bridging and Vertical Governance: Pro-Beneficiary Movements in New Labour Britain
Manlio Cinalli 
7. Networks of Protest on Global Issues in Greece 2002-3
Moses A. Boudourides and Iosif A. Botetzagias 
8. Protest and protesters in advanced industrial democracies. The case of the 15th February global anti-war demonstrations
Joris Verhulst and Stefaan Walgrave 

SECTION III: Social Capital and Trust within Different Democratic Systems
9. On the externalities of social capital: between myth and reality
Luigi Curini 
10. Creating Social Capital and Civic Virtue: Historical Legacy and Individualistic Values. What Civil Society in Spain?
Rafael Vázquez García 
11. Social Capital and Political Trust in New Democracies in Asia: Ingredients of Deliberative Communication and Democratic Governance
Ji-Young Kim 
12. Creating Social Capital through Deliberative Participation. The Experience of the Argentine Popular Assemblies
Julien D. Talpin 
13. Conclusion: Civil society, social movements and social capital
Derrick Purdue 

Biography

Derrick Purdue

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