The existence of political interest in society is critical for the health and future of all democracies and countries aspiring to become democracies. Likewise, a populace having the ability and willingness to participate in politics is crucial for a healthy society. An interest in politics and a desire to participate are not the same thing as actually being able to participate. Currently, there...

The Information Society An International Journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713669588 Civil Society and Cyber Society: The Role of the Internet in Community Associations and Democratic Politics Michael J. Jensen a; James N. Danziger a; Alladi Venkatesh a a CRITO (Center for Research on Inf...

Writing and researching Southern Europe as a symbiotic area has always presented challenging task. Historians political scientists such Stanley Payne, Edward Malefakis, Giulio Sapelli, Roberto Aliboni have studied the concept of its difficult paths to modernity. They been joined by sociologists anthropologists who debated existence European paradigm in nineteenth twentieth centuries arduous tra...

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...