NGOs, Civil Society and Structural Changes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook NGOs, Civil Society and Structural Changes write by Acar Kutay. This book was released on 2021-06-22. NGOs, Civil Society and Structural Changes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes—including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Such massive structural changes greatly problematize the older liberal view of a simple split between state and civil society actors which nonetheless remains dominant in much of social and political sciences. The author argues that the naturalist and behaviorist approaches to civil society occlude the fact that citizens increasingly live within a particular and highly contestable way of imagining and constructing civil society. The book shows that changes in how civil society is conceptualized and organized around new practices, might mark radically new conceptions of the state that are ideologically neo-liberal and subtle in the ways they disempower ordinary citizens.
NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere
NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere write by Sabine Lang. This book was released on 2013. NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates how nongovernmental organizations can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests. Sabine Lang analyzes the choices that NGOs face in their work for policy change between working in institutional settings and practicing public advocacy that incorporates constituents' voices.
NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society
NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society write by Carew Boulding. This book was released on 2016-10-06. NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have an important effect on political participation in the developing world. Contrary to popular belief, they promote moderate political participation through formal mechanisms such as voting only in democracies where institutions are working well. This is a radical departure from the bulk of the literature on civil society that sees NGOs and other associations as playing a role in strengthening democracy wherever they operate. Instead, Carew Boulding shows that where democratic institutions are weak, NGOs encourage much more contentious political participation, including demonstrations, riots, and protests. Except in extreme cases of poorly functioning democratic institutions, however, the political protest that results from NGO activity is not generally anti-system or incompatible with democracy - again, as long as democracy is functioning above a minimal level.
Organizing for Democracy
Organizing for Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Organizing for Democracy write by G. Sidney Silliman. This book was released on 1998-05-01. Organizing for Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The number, variety, and political prominence of non-governmental organization in the Philippines present a unique opportunity to study citizen activism. Nearly 60,000 in number by some estimates, grassroots and support organizations promote the interests of farmers, the urban poor, women, and indigenous peoples. They provide an avenue for political participation and a mechanism, unequaled elsewhere in Southeast Asia, for redressing the inequities of society. Organizing for Democracy brings together the most recent research on these organizations and their programs in the first book addressing the political significance of NGOs in the Philippines.
Development, NGOS, and Civil Society
Development, NGOS, and Civil Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development, NGOS, and Civil Society write by Jenny Pearce. This book was released on 2000. Development, NGOS, and Civil Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rise of neo-liberalism and the so-called Washington Consensus have generated a powerful international ideology concerning what constitutes good governance, democratization, and the proper roles of the State and civil society in advancing development. As public spending has declined, the nongovernment sector has benefited very significantly from taking on a service-delivery role. At the same time, NGOs, as representatives of civil society, are a convenient channel through which official agencies can promote political pluralism. But can NGOs simultaneously facilitate governments’ withdrawal from providing basic services for all and also claim to represent and speak for the poor and the disenfranchised? The chapters describe some of the tensions inherent in the roles being played by NGOs, and asks whether these organizations truly stand for anything fundamentally different from the agencies on whose largesse they increasingly depend.
