scholarly journals Good seed makes a good crop? The relationship between civil society and post-independence democracy levels

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Sandra Grahn ◽  
Anna Lührmann
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Good Seed ◽  
The Relationship

Transnational Social Movements and Peaceful Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Milcíades Peña
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Transnational Social Movements ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interactive Dynamic ◽  
Dominant Treatment

The chapter discusses the relationship between social movements and peaceful change. First, it reviews the way this relationship has been elaborated in IR constructivist and critical analyses, as part of transnational activist networks, global civil society, and transnational social movements, while considering the blind sides left by the dominant treatment of these entities as positive moral actors. Second, the chapter reviews insights from the revolution and political violence literature, a literature usually sidelined in IR debates about civil society, in order to cast a wider relational perspective on how social movements participate in, and are affected by, interactive dynamic processes that may escalate into violent outcomes at both local and international levels.

scholarly journals Reflections on the Relationship between the Government and Civil Society Organizations during the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Israeli Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillel Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Health Economic ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The paper analyzes the relations between the government and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. The paper presents the inconsistent policy of the government, which has been influenced by various interest groups and the very limited financial support allocated to CSOs during the health, economic and social crisis. The paper describes the government’s alienated attitude toward the CSOs as well as the reasons for that behavior. Special attention is devoted to the government’s misunderstanding of the mission and roles of CSOs in modern society, especially at times of crisis and national disasters. The paper also analyzes the organizational and strategic behavior of CSOs toward the government, which has also contributed to the alienated attitude of the government toward them. I argue that relations between CSOs and the government should be based on more trust, mutuality, and understanding on the part of both actors in order to change power-dependence relations, and that there is a need to establish more cross-sectoral partnerships for the benefit of citizens.

Eine komplexe Friedenstheologie und Friedensethik

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Mierzwa
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Difficult Question ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Preferential Option ◽  
Religionless Christianity ◽  
The Relationship

Peace has to be thought of in a more complex way, which is mainly stimulated by women from civil society. Many questions can no longer be addressed in a thematically and politically isolated or delimited way; chains of action and challenges are too interwoven. So far, too little attention has been paid to the preferential option for the poor, the approach of religionless Christianity and a feminist-liberation-theological-pacifist approach. Topics that are more marginal, such as a peace-ethical approach to money and the relationship between peace and health, are also addressed. Finally, the difficult question of how far one may still cooperate with the state when one is on the trail of peace is explored.

Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 456-457
Author(s):  
Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
North America ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Actual Case ◽  
The North ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Conceptualization

Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India, Rajesh Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty, eds., New Delhi: Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publications, 2003, pp. 363.In the last decade in North America, there has been an explosion of books on the subject of civil society. Like so many other concepts in contemporary political science, the notion of civil society has been imported to analyze other polities outside the North American hemisphere, and India is no exception. However, Tandon and Mohanty's edited book presents a fresh perspective by combining academic analysis with that of on-the-ground practitioners to examine the relationship between civil society and governance. The book is divided into two parts: the first deals with the theoretical conceptualization of civil society and the second with actual case studies.

scholarly journals Um ministério com cultura: Gilberto Gil e os exercícios de antropologia aplicada

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (57) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Segata ◽  
Adriana Donato
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
The Relationship

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre o Ministério da Cultura na gestão do Ministro Gilberto Gil e o processo de formulação das principais políticas gestadas no período 2003 a 2008. O primeiro tópico apresenta os principais mecanismos da gestão Gilberto Gil: Sistema Nacional de Cultura, reformulação da Lei Rouanet, Programa Cultura Viva – Pontos de Cultura, Plano Nacional de Cultura e Vale-Cultura. O segundo tópico faz uma reflexão sobre a relação da “ampliação do conceito de cultura” em sua dimensão antropológica e simbólica – ideia implementada pelo ministro – para novas diretrizes das políticas culturais gestadas em seu mandato. Por fim, traz uma reflexão sobre a contribuição da abertura não somente conceitual, mas também a abertura do diálogo entre diversos atores da sociedade civil neste processo de construção das novas diretrizes e das novas políticas culturais no Brasil a partir de 2003.Palavras-chave: Gilberto Gil. Cultura. Antropologia. Democratização. Políticas Públicas  A ministry with culture: Gilberto Gil and the exercises in applied anthropologyAbstract: This paper presents a study on the Ministry of Culture in the administration of Minister Gilberto Gil and formulating the central policies implemented from 2003 to 2008. The first topic presents the main mechanisms of the Gilberto Gil administration: the Sistema National Culture System, the reformulation of Lei Rounet, the Program Cultura Viva – Pontos de Cultura, the Plano Nacional de Cultura and the Vale-Cultura. The second topic reflects the relationship between the “expansion of the concept of culture” in its anthropological and symbolic dimension – an idea implemented by the minister – for new guidelines for cultural policies created during his term. Finally, the work reflects on the contribution of conceptual opening and the opening of dialogue between different civil society actors in this process of construction of new guidelines and new cultural policies in Brazil from 2003 onwards. It reflects on how a set of anthropological defenses to traditional, popular and ethnic knowledge, practices, and knowledge converted into an “anthropological concept of culture” guided a vision of democratizing government that is resistant to European models of culture.Keywords: Gilberto Gil; Culture; Anthropology, Democratization; Public Policies

scholarly journals Implementation of socially responsible business transactions in trading companies

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Sandra Mrvica-Mađarac ◽  
Mirjana Nedović ◽  
Matej Galić
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Business Transaction ◽  
Business Transactions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gaining Insight

Trade companies are becoming aware of their role in society and the local community. Socially responsible business transaction means a positive approach to the relationship with the community, its problems and events. It has become recognized among the customers and the company's management. Companies have carried out volunteering and various humanitarian activities to engage themselves in social activities and to increase their reputation towards their customers, suppliers and employees. Factors that have influenced to the development of socially responsible business transactions are: globalization, the transition to a knowledge society, consumer care, civil society activities, environmental problems and other. Trading companies that operate in line with the concept of socially responsible business transactions, when they implement this type of business, they can achieve a numerous benefit, from strengthening of the corporate image, and from competitiveness to the environmental awareness. Socially responsible business transaction also maintains cooperation between businesses, civil society and public administration and as such creates a positive image of social responsibility and contributes to the development of the local community. For the purpose of this paper a research was conducted on a representative sample of trading companies with the aim of gaining insight whether such companies do promote socially responsible business transactions and what kind of activities in such form these companies use.

scholarly journals Civil Society and Pro-Democracy Social Movements: Troubled Relations Within Authoritarian Regimes?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murad Nasibov
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Organic Solidarity ◽  
Mechanical Solidarity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Conceptual Relationship

This article tries to conceptually lay down the troubled relations between civil society and social movements within authoritarian regimes. This is done by, first, bringing clarity to the conceptual relationship between civil society and social movement and, then, applying it to the authoritarian context, still theoretically. Following the “hints” of the Eastern European intellectuals of the late 1970s and the 1980s and building on the appropriation of Durkheim’s differentiation between mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity, the article distinguishes two types of solidarity: associative solidarity and action and collective solidarity and action. Civil society is proposed to emerge on associative solidarities (and their actions), while social movements build on collective solidarities (and their actions). Furthermore, associative and collective actions are identified to be progressive and transgressive, respectively. Consequently, the proposed theoretical account is applied theoretically to the authoritarian context and several hypotheses are proposed on the relationship between civil society and pro-democracy movement within authoritarian regimes.

scholarly journals Trajectories of Civil Society Leaders in Italy: Individual Careers, Organizational Structures, and Ideological Affiliations

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402110615
Author(s):  
Cecilia Santilli ◽  
Roberto Scaramuzzino
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
National Level ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Third ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Member Organization ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between individual leaders’ career trajectories and organizational structure and identity in Italian civil society organizations (CSOs) active at national level. The analysis in this qualitative study draws on two sets of data, semi-structured interviews with leaders on their career trajectories and their understanding of what it takes to become a leader of a CSO and short biographies of leaders’ career trajectories. Three main representational logics are idenitified: within: multi-level, within: member-organization, and outside: supporting organization. The two first logics are based on a trajectory within the organizations either departing from the local and regional levels of the same organizations or within one or more member organizations. The third logic is based on a trajectory outside the organization that is marked by the ideological affiliation of the president through leading positions in other organizations within the same movement or field.

The improper politics of representation

2019 ◽  
pp. 224-238
Author(s):  
Mark Devenney
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Democratic Representation ◽  
Proper Form ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter takes issue with the renewed justification and theorisation of representative democracy associated with the constructivist turn, to reframe debates concerning the relationship between representation, property and civil society. Drawing on a set of older debates about democracy, property and representation the chapter contends that theorists such as Nadia Urbinati and Lisa Disch do not adequately account for existing forms of inequality, structured around property and wealth. The chapter defends a principle of democratic representation as improper in respect of existing orders of property and propriety, as against constructivist accounts that too quickly forget constituted representative interests so as to focus on the coming into being of new claims (e.g. Michael Saward). By contrast to the procedural justification of representative democracy defended most coherently by Urbinati, which seeks to establish a proper form of politics, the chapter argues that democracy is always in excess of particular forms of representation and property.

Military Budget, War Against Boko Haram Insurgency, and Its Impact on Nigerian Politics and Economy

2018 ◽  
pp. 427-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moses Metumara Duruji ◽  
Sunday Idowu ◽  
Okachukwu Dibia ◽  
Favour U. Duruji-Moses
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Northeast Region ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Military Budget

This chapter examines the relationship between the components of defense spending, the fight against insurgency in Nigeria, particularly Boko Haram in the Northeast, and its impact on the politics and economics of the country for the period 2009-2017. The long duration of military rule in Nigeria contributed significantly to under-developing the military, a strategy by the military men in power to secure their hold on power. Added to this was the general poor performance of the military administrations in Nigeria that suppressed civil society in the country. Consequently, the widening of political space when the country transited to democracy in 1999 opened up the space for bottled-up agitations that gave rise to ethnic and religious sect militias propagating diverse agendas. One of such is the Boko Haram which waged an insurgency against Nigeria in the northeast region of the country. To tackle the challenge, the budget for the military was increased. The chapter also discusses the military budget as a result of the counter insurgency, its management in the prosecution of the war against Boko Haram, and its impact on the Nigerian economy.

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