Civil Society and Local Development

democracy and civil society

since there are various views on the civil society, in this paper the writer first introduces two main views, a limited view and a broad view, explaining the concept based on these two views. the two views, formed by social and political theorists, are firmly grounded in political and social literature. to explain the concept, the writer introduces the indexes of the civil society, the most imp...

Capacity Development and Civil Society Organizations January 2011

Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development

In the face of mounting environmental degradation and persistent poverty over the previous decade, Johannesburg’s World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) of August and September 2002 inherited a number of unmet accords from the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. Consequently, the United Nations Stakeholder Forum Implementation Conference (IC) was convened to integrate civil society stakeh...

Civil Society as Idea and Civil Society as Process : The Case of Ghana

The idea of civil society contains a set of assumptions about the unity of civil society, the civility of civil society, the ‘separateness’ of civil society and the state, and the intrinsic relationship between civil society and democracy. All of these assumptions can be questioned by examining civil society in a specific country context. In the case of Ghana, processes in civil society have al...

Civil society and governance in housing: A study of the relationship between local government and civil society in the Polish cities of Wrocław and Poznań

Civil society is currently a popular concept in the political science literature, appearing across a number of different studies and sub-disciplines. Authors such as Deakin (2001) and Keane (1998) have discussed the widespread employment of the concept where its use ranges from discussions of global civil society in International Relations and the political economy, to civic renewal and social ...