Civil Society

Name: Civil Society
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ISBN: 9780745645865

ISBN-10: 0745645860

ISBN-13: 9780745645865

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Michael Edwards

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Since its publication in 2004, Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for all those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in the contemporary world.In this thoroughly-revised edition, Michael Edwards updates the arguments and evidence presented in the original and adds major new material on issues such as civil society in Africa and the Middle East, global civil society, information technology and new forms of citizen organizing. He explains how in the future the pressures of state encroachment, resurgent individualism, and old and familiar forces of nationalism and fundamentalism in new clothes will test and re-shape the practice of citizen action in…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 5/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements



Introduction-What's the Big Idea?



Civil Society as Associational Life



Civil Society as the Good Society



Civil Society as the Public Sphere



Synthesis-Unraveling the Civil Society Puzzle



So What's to be Done?


Notes


References and Bibliography


Index