Civil Society
ISBN: 9780745645865 | 0745645860
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 6/30/2009
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Since its publication in 2004, Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for all those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in the contemporary world.In this thoroughly-revised edition, Michael Edwards updates the arguments and evidence presented in the original and adds major new material on issues such as civil society in Africa and the Middle East, global civil society, information technology and new forms of citizen organizing. He explains how in the future the pressures of state encroachment, resurgent in... MORE
| Preface | p. vi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Introduction-What's the Big Idea? | p. 1 |
| Civil Society as Associational Life | p. 18 |
| Civil Society as the Good Society | p. 45 |
| Civil Society as the Public Sphere | p. 63 |
| Synthesis-Unraveling the Civil Society Puzzle | p. 82 |
| So What's to be Done? | p. 107 |
| Notes | p. 126 |
| References and Bi... MORE | p. 136 |
| Index | p. 158 |
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Michael Edwards, Director of the Governance & Civil Society Unit at the Ford Foundation
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