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Governance and European Civil Society: Governmentality, Discourse and NGOs book cover

1st Edition

Governance and European Civil Society Governmentality, Discourse and NGOs

By Acar Kutay Copyright 2014
224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides a critical analysis of the European Union’s approach to ‘governance’, focusing on the way in which civil society is incorporated within the EU decision-making process and arguing that it is not conducive to the democratisation of EU governance. Using a governmentality approach, Kutay demonstrates that civic actors are not incorporated into EU decision-making processes as... Read more

Introduction  1. Theoretical perspective: Governmentality and discursive formation of European civil society  2. Civil society participation in governance: A Global project?  3. European governance and civil society  4. A Case Study on the Social Platform of European NGOs: A performing agent of European civil society  5. Conducting a European civil society agency: embedding neoliberal governance through managerial subjects

Biography

Acar Kutay is an Affiliated Researcher Fellow at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.

"The book's strength lies in challenging the dominant optimistic narrative concerning civil society's involvement in governance through an in-depth case study of this key association, but the analysis is also limited to this case and subject to the author's interpretation. Summing Up: Optional. Graduate, research, and professional collections."

--A. A. Caviedes, State University of New York at Fredonia, CHOICE February 2015 

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