CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society: Comparative perspectives

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Volkhart Heinrich, Lorenzo Fioramonti, CIVICUS (Association)
CIVICUS, 2007 - 407 Seiten
The second volume of the CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society offers a wide-ranging analysis of key issues facing civil society worldwide with contributions from prominent researchers and civil society practitioners. Comprising 24 chapters, the book draws on the information collected by the CIVICUS Civil Society Index project in more than 45 countries to explore issues such as civil society’s accountability, its relations to the state and corporate sector and its role in governance and development. It also includes regional overviews of the state of civil society in different continents. By bringing together a diversity of perspectives and themes, this book offers one of the most comprehensive and engaging analyses of civil society worldwide.

Other Contributors: Helmut Anheier, Stefanie Bailer, Monica Blagescu, Thilo Bodenstein, David Bonbright, L. David Brown, Jerzy Celichowski, Julius Court, Wolfgang Dörner, Alan Fowler, Marc M. Howard, Mohini Kak, Mahi Khallaf, Natalia Kiryttopoulou, Petr Kopecky, Barry Knight, Carmen Malena, Jacob Mati, Cas Mudde, Kumi Naidoo, Paul Opoku-Mensah, Aruna Rao, Laurie Regelbrugge, Janine Schall-Emden, Andres Serbin, Catherine Shea, Carla Suarez, Rajesh Tandon, Özlem Tür, and Jan van Deth.

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Autoren-Profil (2007)

V. Finn Heinrich was, until the end of 2006, the Director of Programs for the global civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Lorenzo Fioramonti is Senior Research Fellow at the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Programme, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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