Civil Societies and Social Movements

Potentials and Problems
Herausgeber: Purdue, Derrick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available statistics on associations, to ethnographic study of emerging attempts at participant / deliberative democracy. Divided into three clear sections, focusing on the following core aspects of civil society: ¿ the position of civic organizations between state and society in emerging forms of governance ¿ the geographical scales of social movement mobilizations and actions from the local to the global ¿ the patterns of public trust and civic engagement that falls under the rubric of social capital. The book draws on case studies from a wide range of countries, including: Russia, Ukraine, Britain, Greece, Spain, Germany, Argentina and new Asian democracies. Presenting current research on the key dimensions of civil society, Civil Societies and Social Movements will appeal to those researching and studying in the fields of political science, sociology and social policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780415586757
• ISBN-10: 0415586755
• Artikelnr.: 30362640

Autorenporträt

Derrick Purdue

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Dimensions of Civil Society Derrick Purdue Section 1:
Civic Organizations between State and Society in Emerging Forms of
Governance 2. Civic Organizations and the State in Putin's Russia:
Co-operation, Co-optation, Confrontation Suvi Salmenniemi 3. What Happened
after the 'End of History'? Foreign Aid and Civic Organizations in Ukraine
Kateryna Pishchikova 4. Civic Organizations and Local Governance: Learning
from the Experience of Community Networks John Diamond Section 2: Civic
Societies and Social Movements from Local to Global: Arenas for
Mobilization and Action 5. Social Movement Scenes: Infrastructures of
Opposition in Civil Society Sebastian Haunss and Darcy K. Leach 6. Between
Horizontal Bridging and Vertical Governance: Pro-Beneficiary Movements in
New Labour Britain Manlio Cinalli 7. Networks of Protest on Global Issues
in Greece 2002-3 Moses A. Boudourides and Iosif A. Botetzagias 8. Protest
and Protesters in Advanced Industrial Democracies. The Case of the 15th
February Global Anti-War Demonstrations Joris Verhulst and Stefaan Walgrave
Section 3: Social Capital and Trust within Different Democratic Systems 9.
On the Externalities of Social Capital: Between Myth and Reality Luigi
Curini 10. Creating Social Capital and Civic Virtue: Historical Legacy and
Individualistic Values. What Civil Society in Spain? Rafael Vázquez García
11. Social Capital and Political Trust in New Democracies in Asia:
Ingredients of Deliberative Communication and Democratic Governance
Ji-Young Kim 12. Creating Social Capital through Deliberative
Participation. The Experience of the Argentine Popular Assemblies Julien D.
Talpin 13. Conclusion: Civil Society, Social Movements and Social Capital
Derrick Purdue