Civil Society, Democracy and Power: Global Connections
Wainwright, Hilary
Wainwright, Hilary
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2004
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The term global civil society is hotly contested, admit the editors, who offer their own definition. Of the three editor-contributors and 11 additional contributors, nine are affiliated either with the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE, or the UCLA Center for Civil Society. Contributions to this annually updated yearbook tackle the debate on definitions; NGOs; multiculturalism; the Arab perspective; oil and activism; globalism, democracy, and democratic power; prominent individuals behind the global civil society; and methodologies for measuring and analyzing it, among other issues. The last section gives a chronology of events. Of interest to social and political scientists, activists, students, journalists and policy makers. Editor of Red Pepper, Hilary Wainwright, identifies the conditions in which global civil society can reinvigorate or hinder the development of local democracy with examples from China, Brazil and Guatemala.
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Wainwright, H. (2004). Civil Society, Democracy and Power: Global Connections. In: Anheier, H., Glasius, M. and Kaldor, M. (Eds.) Global Civil Society. London: Sage.
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