1st Edition
Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds
Part 1: Setting the Scene
1. A Processual-relational Approach to Civil Society
Liv Egholm and Lars Bo Kaspersen
2. The Modern Conceptual History of Civil Society
Christiane Mossin
3. The "Long History" of Civil Society in Denmark and Western Europe: Civil Society – in the Shadow of the State (Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century)
Lars Bo Kaspersen and Anders Sevelsted
4. Different States, Different Shadows: The Particular Exceptionalism of Civil Society in the United States
Elisabeth S. Clemens
Part 2: The Emergence of the Danish Civil Society
5. Civil Society and the Civilizing Mission
Maj Grasten
6. Christianity, State, and Voluntarism: Protestant Processes of Privatization and Deprivatization
Anders Sevelsted
7. Philanthropy as the Co-creator of the Welfare State
Liv Egholm
8. Past and Present Futures of Democracy. The Danish Peasants’ Movement as Democracy Instigator and Cultural Mythologizer
Christiane Mossin
9. Eclipsed by the Welfare State: Understanding the Rise and Decline of the Danish Workers’ Cooperation, 1871-2000
Andreas Möller Mulvad and Bue Rübner Hansen
10. Civil Society in the Shadow of the Danish Welfare State
Mathias Hein Jessen
11. Civic Action as Temporal Process-in-relations: Towards an Events-based Approach
Dimitra Makri Andersen
Epilogue
12. Civil Society as Process and Valuation
Frank Adloff
Biography
Liv Egholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Lars Bo Kaspersen is Professor in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is the co-editor of Does War Make States? Investigations of Charles Tilly's Historical Sociology and the author of Anthony Giddens: An Introduction to a Social Theorist.
