The use of eParticipation by civil society actors is rapidly evolving. New socio-technical tools, devices, applications, services, networks enable a revitalization or foster new forms of social and political actions. Currently the civil society movements adopt and shape them to better organize, inform, communicate, and disseminate their (counter-) public and the traditional political system and...

The empirical impulse of the discussion on organizational hybridity in public admini lTation is that in a broad variety of public policy :fields several sector-specific institutional fonn. overlap. Examples arc tax-exempted foundations in the field of education or cience, private v luntary a sociations providing public goods such as socia l ·ervices of various kinds or private goods such as hou...

BACKGROUND Civil society organizations (CSOs) are often assumed to be institutions that facilitate communication between citizens and policymakers. However, CSO advocacy is only as effective as the space allowed by government, the resources available from funders, and their own internal capacity. This article presents findings from a study in Nigeria that explores the advocacy and service deliv...