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Taco Brandsen, Paul Dekker, Adalbert Evers - Civicness in the Governance and Delivery of Social Services

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Civicness in the Governance and Delivery of Social Services

Series: International Civil Society

Volume 6 2010

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Paul Dekker Civicness: from civil society to civic services? S. 19-40

„… 19 Chapter 2 Paul Dekker Civicness: from civil society to civic services? Activities in civil …” „… separate sphere of civil society, but combining associational with public and commercial modes of social …” „… concept of civility (§ 1), I will focus on the presumed civilizing effects of civil society (§ 2) and the …”

Håkon Lorentzen Civicness and ownership. Volunteer Centers between state and civil society S. 181-200

„… civil society Theories of non-profit and voluntary associations frequently assume that ownership form …” „… following question: To which degree does civil engagement presuppose civil society? The question may seem …” „… , situated in the grey zone between state and civil society. My basic question is, again: To which degree do …”

Michaela Neumayr, Michael Meyer In search of civicness: an empirical investigation of service delivery, public advocacy, and community building by civil society organizations S. 201-226

„… investigation of service delivery, public advocacy, and community building by civil society organizations …” „… , voluntary associations play a key role in the provision of social services. These civil society …” „… . Following Putnam (1993), organized civil society is the best way of bringing about a civic culture of …”

Adalbert Evers Civicness, civility and their meanings for social services S. 41-66

„… strength and a weakness that the widespread discussion of civil society is seldom explicit about what the …” „… , excessive ambiguity may render the debate on civil society inconclusive and unconvincing. In this chapter …” „… , we will try to make the definition of the word ‘civil’ in the term ‘civil society’ clearer. To this …”

Taco Brandsen, Paul Dekker, Adalbert Evers Civicness in the governance and delivery of social services S. 9-18

„… delivery of social services The spheres of the state, the market and the third sector (or civil society …” „… identified with civil society. Third sector organizations are termed civil society organizations (CSOs) and …” „… civil society itself, as an “organized civil society”, is associated with a sector of special …”

Authors S. 289-290

„… public service delivery, urban regeneration, governance and civil society. Paul Dekker is Professor …” „… of Civil Society at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and head of the Participation and …” „… Institute for Social Research (ISR) in Oslo (Norway) and Director of the Research Center on Civil Society …”

Janet Newman Civicness and the paradoxes of contemporary governance S. 273-284

„… – democratic values. In civil society and ‘third sector’ organisations, new contracting and commissioning …” „… (through work), community and civil society. Citizens are Janet Newman 279 expected to be busy, not …” „… society/third sector organisations become implicated in contractual relationships that foreground service …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-8

„… European Civil Society edited by Taco Brandsen Gemma Donnelly-Cox Matthias Freise Michael Meyer …” „… called CINEFOGO (Civil society and New Forms of Governance). The network was subsidized by the European …” „… civil society to civic services? 19 Adalbert Evers Civicness, civility and their meanings for social …”

Bernard Enjolras Between market and civic governance regimes: civicness in the governance of social services in Europe S. 249-272

„… where civil society is based on solidarity and responsibility. Citizens are co-responsible for making …” „… understood as the result of parliamentary activities. However, Rokkan acknowledges the role of civil society …” „… , through civil society organizations; and the mass-media channel. Additionally, within the corporate …”

Taco Brandsen Civicness in organizations: a reflection on the relationship between professionals and managers S. 67-82

„… by the civic quality of those organizations. The concept of civicness helps us to discuss civil …” „… society without being bound to the traditional conceptualizations, specifically those that restrict it to …” „… community is considered legitimate by the wider society within which it operates. • Both at the …”

Sílvia Ferreira Researching civicness contexts and conditions: the case of the Portuguese welfare mix in social services S. 227-248

„… reinterpreted. The traditional competencies of the state, the market, community and civil society are being …” „… which contextual conditions are necessary in the state and civil society for the existence of civicness …” „… accession process. It demonstrates the contextual nature of definitions of the state and civil society, and …”

Victor Pestoff Civicness and the co-production of social services in Sweden S. 99-112

„… of civil society involvement in the provision of public services. This reflects the form of citizen …” „… chapter to this volume, this definition reflects the qualities of civil society, but focuses more on …” „… state. Civil democracy & social enterprises in a welfare society, Aldershot, Brookfield/Ashgate …”

Ota de Leonardis Organization matters: contracting for service provision and civicness S. 125-152

„… the self-organizing potential of civil society. Public institutions, as the new Article 118 of the …” „… of civil society and the participation of the third sector in providing and managing services, in …” „… civil society organizations that has questioned their civic quality, which currently tends to be taken …”

Kai Leichsenring Introducing civicness in steering and managing social services. Cases from long-term care S. 113-124

„… services 119 3. Needs assessment as a dialogue between civil appeals, professional knowledge and …” „… civicness, and that civil dialogue between representatives of different institutional rationales cannot be …” „… professionalism: sharing authority in civic life, in: The good society, Vol 13, No 1, pp. 6-14. European …”

Index S. 285-288

„… Civil society, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43 …”

Evelien Tonkens Civicness and citizen participation in social services: conditions for promoting respect and public concern S. 83-98

„… quality of institutions and organizations to encourage and reproduce civil attitudes and behaviour at the …” „… participation in professional domains: an introduction to the symposium. The good society, Vol 13, No 1, pp …” „… civic life.’ The good society, Vol 13, No 1, pp. 6-14. Elstub, S. (2006): Towards an inclusive social …”

Stéphane Nassaut, Marthe Nyssens Civicness and service governance: the case of the Belgian quasi-market in the field of proximity services S. 153-180

„… market, public policies and civil society, routledge studies in voluntary and non –profit organizations …” „… services 2 . This 1 This publication is based on a research carried out within the programme “SOCIETY …”

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Annette Zimmer - Civil Societies Compared: Germany and the Netherlands

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Civil Societies Compared: Germany and the Netherlands

Series: International Civil Society

Volume 13 2013

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Rupert Graf Strachwitz Civic Traditions and Civil Society in Germany S. 81-123

„… 81 Civic Traditions and Civil Society in Germany Rupert Graf Strachwitz 1. Introduction In …” „… looking at traditions of civil society in The Netherlands and Germany, some basic differences are easy to …” „… identify. While The Netherlands look back on a long tradition of a strong civil society, the German third …”

Paul Dekker Dutch civil society in macro-quantitative perspectivesx S. 141-161

„… 141 Dutch civil society in macro-quantitative perspectives Paul Dekker 1. Introduction This …” „… ‘countability’ of civil society and to account for the numbers I will be presenting. I consider civil society …” „… associations and volunteering as core phenomena of civil society. Before doing so, I will map quantitative …”

Eckhard Priller Scope, Structure, and Development of Civil Society in Germany S. 161-177

„… 161 Scope, Structure, and Development of Civil Society in Germany Eckhard Priller Introduction …” „… society in Germany. The study shows that civil society in Germany has experienced a fairly long period of …” „… stability and growth, with a steady rise in the number of civil society organizations, an impressive …”

Remieg Aerts Civil society in the Netherlands around 1900. A historical analysis S. 67-81

„… Part Two: Civil Society as a Multifaceted Concept 69 Civil society in the Netherlands around …” „… Dutch history with regard to civil society? On first sight the two countries are of a too unequal size …” „… influence of citizens in urban governments in the later nineteenth century, and in the way civil society …”

Arnd Bauerkämper Comparison and Beyond: Approaches to Investigation of Civil Society in Europe from an Historical and Transnational Perspective S. 25-43

„… development of civil society reached a new stage in the twentieth century, cross-border relations and …” „… about the more specific topics of ‘global governance’ and ‘global civil society’, the historical …” „… society as early as the Middle Ages.1 More commonly, the emergence of a transnational civil society has …”

Annette Zimmer Introduction. Pragmatism versus Ideology: Civil Societies in The Netherlands and in Germany S. 7-24

„… with the fact that Germany´s civil society was not able to build up institutional settings that went …” „… strength of civil society were more or less incorporated into state activities. Against the background of …” „… , civil society as a multifaceted concept that nevertheless serves as a carrier of new ideas, reform …”

Adalbert Evers Hybridisation in German public services – a contested field of innovations S. 197-216

„… just a small touch of community and civil society links is added, but when such minor ingredients get …” „… pressured - pressure that may come from NGOs, the civil society or powerful political actors. This is what …” „… it is complemented by various supportive elements from the civil society; besides volunteering and …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-6

„… European Civil Society edited by Taco Brandsen Gemma Donnelly-Cox Matthias Freise Michael Meyer …” „… Comparing Comparison and Beyond: Approaches to Investigation of Civil Society in Europe from an …” „… : Symbiosis or Synthesis? Hans Keman 43 Part Two: Civil Society as a Multifaceted Concept …”

Contributors S. 343-345

„… , urban history, bourgeois culture, civil society, and democracy. r.aerts@let.ru.nl Anne-Dörte Balks …” „… of Germany and the former GDR, and the democracy and civil society in West Germany …” „… , innovation and the third sector. t.brandsen@fm.ru.nl Paul Dekker is Professor of Civil Society at Tilburg …”

Frans van Waarden (Will and) Did the Netherlands Breach its Dykes? S. 217-247

„… historically well organized and very active civil society, engaged in the formulation and implementation of …” „… well-organised and largely self-governing ‘civil society’, also in the absence of a significant aristocracy …” „… . After a more centralized intermezzo following the Napoleonic period, the country’s civil society …”

Marije Boekkooi Ideology: Too much or too little? Fragmentation in the Dutch left-wing movement S. 123-141

„… , Dutch Social Forum). [Because we] find it important that civil society in the Netherlands is mobilized …” „… ’; it is not the place to launch into broad conceptual discussions about civil society. However, I …” „… nevertheless want to make a few remarks to express some doubts about the ‘countability’ of civil society and …”

Hans Keman Political Science and History: Symbiosis or Synthesis? S. 43-66

„… and not separated from social and economic developments or civil society (see: Miliband, 1972; Offe …” „… ) shaping civil society quite differently from before this time. Depending on territorial features (e.g …” „… are the relations with civil society (Keman, 1998). • States, however defined, represent the (almost …”

Taco Brandsen, Philip Marcel Karré The Inexorable Rise of Hybrid Organizations in The Netherlands S. 177-197

„… and civil society. Usually, they are either former state agencies set at arm’s length (Pollitt/Talbot …” „… 2004) or organisations that originally emerged from civil society, were later incorporated into the …” „… Europe: Multi Level Processes and Organised Civil Society. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 140- 158. Clarke …”

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Risto Alapuro, Henrik Stenius - Nordic Associations in a European Perspective

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Nordic Associations in a European Perspective

Series: International Civil Society

Volume 8 2010

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Erle Rikmann Estonian Civil Society in a Nordic Perspective S. 195-215

„… 195 Erle Rikmann 1 Estonian Civil Society in a Nordic Perspective Structural conditions and …” „… comparisons with the Nordic countries. What factors have shaped the development of civil society in Estonia …” „… compared to its Nordic neighbors? What tendencies prevail in Estonian civil society today? In analyzing …”

Karl Henrik Sivesind, Per Selle Civil Society in the Nordic Countries: Between Displacement and Vitality S. 87-121

„… Part II 89 Karl Henrik Sivesind and Per Selle Civil Society in the …” „… questions: How do these assumptions about a displaced and feeble civil society stand up to new data from all …” „… civil society organizations in society. All these dimensions are closely related to the core …”

Risto Alapuro Introduction: Comparative Approaches to Associations and Civil Society in Nordic Countries S. 9-29

„… “naturalness of civil society’s growth from grass roots concerns” in Nordic countries (Roßteutscher 2005b …” „… Associations and Civil Society in Nordic Countries This book aims at a reassessment of the “Nordic model …” „… ” of civil society in a broad European perspective by looking at associational activity. The analysis …”

Johanna Rainio-Niemi State Committees in Finland in Historical@@Comparative Perspective S. 241-269

„… developed into important meeting places for representatives of the state and civil society associations …” „… co-participation of civil society actors in the making of public policy. The Swedish state committees in …” „… functions as intermediaries between the state and civil society – a tradition that has been seen as …”

Annette Zimmer Nonprofit Embeddedness in the Nordic and East European Countries S. 169-195

„… Civil Society. Making Central European Nonprofit-Organisations Work”. The project was made possible …” „… political traditions. Besides the notion of “civil society against the state” there is, at least in the …” „… conditions of outright colonization or of limited statehood; as a consequence, nonprofit or civil society …”

Authors and Editors S. 327-330

„… , Health, and Civil Society at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on the …” „… the voluntary and the public sector. Address: Centre for Sports, Health and Civil Society …” „… Estonian civil society organizations, civic culture and the consolidation of democracy has appeared in …”

Dag Wollebcek, Bjarne Ibsen, and Martti Siisiäinen Voluntary Associations at the Local Level in Three Nordic Countries S. 121-151

„… which the welfare state allegedly “colonized” the idealized life world of civil society, turned an …” „… sector in economic terms with a strong civil society (Salamon et al. 1999). The link between the …” „… , voluntary organizations, and civil society. However, as more fine-grained, cross-national data began to …”

Risto Alapuro Associations and Representation in Finland and France S. 269-281

„… (civil) society appears, in a peculiar way, as an ordered whole, consisting of structurally determined …” „… (civil) society, are viewed favorably from both sides. Hence a consensual balance, a supportive attitude …” „… prevails toward associations both from the side of civil society and from the side of the state. “The …”

Kristin Strømsnes, Dag Wollebcek The Strange Coexistence of Passive Memberships and High Social Capital in Scandinavia S. 151-169

„… , and from the “active” civil society type found in North America, in which both membership figures …” „… embed social capital and trust through people’s experience about how these civil society institutions …” „… den Broek (1998; 2005) use two dimensions to distinguish between different types of civil society …”

Risto Alapuro Conclusion: How History Matters in Putting Nordic@@Associations into a European Perspective S. 307-318

„… Nordic model of civil society, which is profoundly rooted in processes of state formation that obscured …” „… the distinction between the state and civil society and gave voice to the citizens. Zimmer sees …” „… construct civil society. This process is conceived of as a project to be carried out with help from the …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-6

„… European Civil Society edited by Taco Brandsen Gemma Donnelly-Cox Matthias Freise Michael Meyer …” „… Associations and Civil Society in Nordic Countries Henrik Stenius Nordic Associational Life in a …” „… European and an Inter-Nordic Perspective Part II Karl Henrik Sivesind and Per Selle Civil Society …”

Henrik Stenius Nordic Associational Life in a European and an Inter-Nordic Perspective S. 29-86

„… or preventing women’s participation in associations of civil society (e.g., without their own income …” „… more civil society develops confidence in its capacity for self-government, the less need there is for …” „… deliberative civil society, anchored in and around the popular movements, had from the very beginning a clear …”

Risto Alapuro, Henrik Stenius Preface S. 7-8

„… Associations in November 2006 in Tallinn was organized in collaboration with the Centre for Civil Society and …” „… the series “European Civil Society” for including this volume in their series. The Editors …”

Eeva Luhtakallio Perceptions of Democracy in Helsinki and Lyon S. 281-306

„… influential council groups. In the Finnish case, also a few civil servants were interviewed due to their …” „… strong influence in municipal politics – for example the mayor is a civil servant in most …” „… administration and were instituted by the city civil servants. Citizen participation is not a political issue in …”

Index S. 319-326

„… , 272 Lutheran 52, 64, 198, 211 Protestant 179 320 civil society Civil Society Project 206-210 …” „… ) 111, 252, 262 organization activity-based organizations 101, 103 civil society organizations 20 …” „… , 242, 246, 248-250, 252, 254, 257, 259-263 traditional corporative society 36, 38, 47-49, 61 see …”

Mary Hilson The Nordic Consumer Co-operative Movements in International Perspective, 1890–1939 S. 215-241

„… representatives of the state and civil society associations. Besides being invited to participate in the work of …” „… wholesale society trade, 1925, by country (societies with trade over £3 million) Country National …” „… wholesale society trade, 1925, in sterling UK (CWS) 76,585,764 Russia (Centrosoyus) 19,800,000 UK …”

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Christophe Solioz - Turning Points in Post-War Bosnia

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Turning Points in Post-War Bosnia

Series: Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden

Volume 179 2007

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Why Bosnian civil society matters S. 38-48

„… 381.5. Why Bosnian civil society matters Promoters of Western civil society aid to the Balkans …” „… tend to forget that in Bosnia, civil society can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth …” „… intensive development of civil society started after the establishment of Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878 …”

Challenges for the Stability Pact and for Bosnia S. 57-60

„… civil society to the achievement of the objectives of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe”, in …” „… involvement of civil society actors in the Stability Pact process was not seriously addressed until 6 June …” „… Zellner point out, firstly, there is a huge contrast between the rhetoric on civil society and the …”

Towards new peace-building processes S. 31-38

„… no price. In short, civil society aid turned out to be a process of learning on both sides, a process …” „… that is still deepening as the years pass. My summation of ten years of Western civil society aid to …” „… functioning and independent civil society and state. Indeed, there is a risk “that the international community …”

OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s field experience S. 48-57

„… grassroots to state level throughout Bosnia. The department has four areas or branches: Civil Society …” „… an adequate ownership strategy through different initiatives. Civil society programmes were one focus …” „… even less when he says that there “seems to be a large gap between the civil society association funded …”

Past and present [in]formal networks in Bosnia S. 67-84

„… komšiluk: neighbourliness CSOs: civil society organisations pleme: family clans NGOs: non-governmental …” „… tradition.63 2.2.4. The early development of civil society and the role of cultural societies In 1862 …” „… development of civil society only started after the establishment of Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878, especially …”

Democratisation and transition processes S. 26-31

„… procedures. The main topics became cultural preconditions, mediating institutions, active civil society, and …” „… real integrity has no price. In short, civil society aid turned out to be a process of learning on both …” „… democratic society. This clear prioritisation of universal democratic values was generally linked to the …”

Selected Bibliography S. 156-170

„… , Building Civil Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denver: University of Denver, Human Rights Working Papers …” „… Zeitalter der Globalisierung, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2000, 279 pp. Kaldor, Mary, Global Civil Society …” „… , Sarajevo–Rijeka: IMIC, 2003, 317 pp. Ottaway, Marina & Carothers, Thomas (eds.), Civil Society Aid and Democracy …”

Perceptions of ethnic warfare and (dis)integration processes S. 22-26

„… for changes.” 46 Thus, the challenge today is to mobilise not just civil society and politics, but …” „… : Civil Society and Its Rivals (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994), p. 126. 26up at a higher level of …” „… preconditions, mediating institutions, active civil society, and even the internalisation of certain cultural …”

Informality and formality of social networks S. 61-67

„… and moral ties, may also have an innovative potential. At the level of civil society, examples of …” „… various successful civil society initiatives in the Balkans, we find that many of these activities are …” „… Herbert Blumer, “Society as symbolic interaction”, in: Arnold Rose (ed.), Human Behavior and Social …”

State building, [in]formal networks and foreign intervention S. 84-85

„… Bosnia’s social capital, to the emergence of a rich culture, and to the shaping of civil society, as well …” „… juncture between community and society – have much to do with the long-term Yugoslav and Bosnian political …” „… any society, [in]formal networks may be divided into exclusive and inclusive ones, vicious and …”

The responsibility of the international community and of Bosnian politicians S. 98-104

„… , “Reconstructing Bosnia, constructing civil society: Disjuncture and convergence”, in: Ian Smillie (ed.), Patronage …” „… a general feature of Bosnian society increasingly affecting other social dimensions. 64 Concerning …” „… aims to build or strengthen the capacity of community members of both governmental and civil sector in …”

About the Author S. 171

„… projects, first in the sector of civil society development, second in the field of transition and …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-6

„… civil society matters 38 1.6. OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s field experience 48 1.7 …”

Western Balkans: The last case of the EU? S. 149-150

„… closer to its citizens, but also of improving communication on enlargement and facilitating a civil …” „… society dialogue between the citizens of EU member states and of the candidate countries. As Carl Bildt …”

Ten years of Dayton and beyond S. 107-117

„… : TOL, 3 May 2000); available at http//www.tol.cz. 114racy and civil society.16 Papi?’s second point …” „… Council of Ministers is no longer rotating, thus transmuting to a Prime Minister, and the Civil Service …” „… support civil implementation of the GFAP. It is also tasked with assisting Bosnia’s unified army, as well …”

EU’s future: Strong and inclusive or weak and exclusive? S. 150-152

„… citizens, but also of improving communication on enlargement and facilitating a civil society dialogue …”

Forthcoming changes S. 139-143

„… distant perspective, the Bosnian authorities, involving all political forces together with the civil …” „… society, will have to initiate a process of drafting an entirely new constitution based on a national …” „… rural society such as Bosnia will not be attracted by technical concepts such as SAA, Feasibility Study …”

The first post-war turning point S. 93-98

„… elected authorities and representatives of civil society. This new orientation coincided with the arrival …”

The strategic issue: Conditionality versus ownership S. 133-139

„… among agencies of state and civil society, decide of their own volition that policy changes are …”

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Matthias Freise, Mikka Pyykkönen, Egle Vaidelyte - A Panacea for all Seasons?

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Miikka Pyykkönen Governmentalisation of the Civil Society? Power, Governance and Civil Society in Gramsci’s and Foucault’s Analytics of Power S. 23-43

„… and businesses. In all this, crucial is the civil society’s more or less intentional tendency to …” „… I New roles and relations of civil society and public administration 25 Miikka Pyykkönen …” „… Governmentalisation of the Civil Society? Power, Governance and Civil Society in Gramsci’s and Foucault’s Analytics …”

Matthias Freise, Miikka Pyykkönen, Eglé Vaidelyté A Panacea for all Seasons? Civil Society and Governance in Europe S. 9-22

„… of the welfare state caused by a combination of market and state failure, civil society-centred …” „… of civil society in modern times that are formulated by many feature writers and politicians are …” „… frequently unrealistic. Nevertheless, although civil society is definitely not a panacea for all seasons …”

Malin Gawell Activist Entrepreneurship: Attacking Norms and Articulating Disclosive Stories in (Civil) Society S. 201-223

„… discourses, it is here tempting to argue that a civil society-based entrepreneurship is a panacea for all …” „… ) society is elaborated on. Finally, a discussion about civil society’s role in society concludes the …” „… in (Civil) Society This chapter is based on a study of the creation of the organization Attac in …”

Monika Molnar Civil Society Organizations and the Accountability Movement in Hungary: From Theory to Practice S. 141-163

„… examines the term accountability as it applies to civil society organizations and proposes an integrated …” „… . Enhancing accountability is a critical issue in the management and governance of civil society …” „… , Hungary Civil society and its activities have become essential factors of democratization, and its …”

Matthias Freise Parenting Civil Society Organizations by Public Private Partnerships? Case Study Research from Germany S. 61-81

„… 61 Matthias Freise Parenting Civil Society Organizations by Public Private Partnerships – Case …” „… the relations between state and civil society organizations in the broad field of welfare provision …” „… involvement of civil society actors and analyzes how these partnerships contrast with the established modes …”

Johan Hvenmark Members as Democratic Owners and Profitable Customers: On Changing Perceptions of Membership and the Commercialization of Civil Society Organizations S. 163-181

„… Perceptions of Membership and the Commercialization of Civil Society Organizations Departing from an …” „… increased commercialization and the adoption of corporate ideas and behaviours in civil society …” „… and increased democratic deficit in society. Keywords: Membership, Civil Society Organizations …”

Anna Domaradzka Filling the Gaps? The Role of Civil Society on the Individual Level: The Case of Polish Women’s Organizations S. 287-304

„… 287 Anna Domaradzka Filling the Gaps? The Role of Civil Society on the Individual Level: The …” „… are often at the root of social activity. Therefore, the chapter argues that the civil society can …” „… the concept of civil society from the individual perspective, while the second part serves as an …”

Piotr Romaniuk Civil Society, Third Sector and Local Self-government: Drawing the Framework for Building the Capacity of Political Transformation in Poland S. 81-99

„… 81 Piotr Romaniuk Civil Society, Third Sector and Local Self-government: Drawing the Framework …” „… objectives. The first is to present the picture of civil society in Poland; the other, to discuss the …” „… as to analyze the mutual relationship and possible interactions between civil society and the legal …”

Stefano Stortone Participatory Budgeting: Heading Towards a ‘Civil’ Democracy? S. 99-121

„… . There is another fundamental aspect. Besides being simply tailored to the civil society’s direct …” „… society’s activities (Keane 1998: 6). On the one hand, civil society is indispensable to consolidate and …” „… both the traditional watchdog or society-driven horizontal role of civil society as well as protest or …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-6

„… European Civil Society edited by Taco Brandsen Gemma Donnelly-Cox Matthias Freise Michael Meyer …” „… Filip Wijkström Annette Zimmer Volume 5 Civil Society and Governance in Europe A Panacea for all Seasons …” „… Matthias Freise, Miikka Pyykkönen, Eglė Vaidelytė A Panacea for all Seasons? Civil Society and Governance …”

Taco Brandsen Innovation and institutional legacies – A case study in Dutch Social Housing S. 43-61

„… One of the supposed benefits of civil society is its capacity to innovate. However, previous studies …” „… suggest that the innovative capacity of organised civil society is not a given, but contingent on the …” „… how the institutional environment of organised civil society affects its capacity to innovate. In a …”

Eglé Vaidelyté Understanding the Philanthropy Phenomenon in Lithuania: Element of Welfare State or Private Initiative? S. 121-140

„… social policy. The chapter discusses whether it is possible that philanthropy as a part of civil society …” „… of civil society, might have the above-mentioned ‘extra dimension’ of a panacea in building social …” „… of civil society, is rather broad and fuzzy concept that is also ‘much debated and often defined …”

Filip Wijkström Preface S. 7-8

„… students to what would become the first European Civil Society PhD Dissertation Network Meeting. That …” „… source of new knowledge. Much is said about civil society, but much more remains to be said. The concept …” „… concept is given many names in a great variety of contexts. The action and practices within civil society …”

Authors and Editors S. 309-310

„… current research interests are entrepreneurship with social and/or political focus, civil society’s role …” „… , public service delivery and civil society. e-mail: t.brandsen@fm.ru.nl. Anna Domaradzka is Assistant …” „… focus on formal and informal local activism and civil society in gender perspective. e-mail …”

Stefan Einarsson How do Discourse and Governance interact within a Popular Movement? Case Study Research from Sweden S. 181-201

„… Study Research from Sweden Civil society is often seen as an important part of societal governance …” „… define civil society organizations as an integral part of the good governance of society – and their …” „… constrained by sentiments in wider society. It is also often claimed that civil society plays an important …”

Kari Steen-Johnsen New Wine in Old Bottles? Traditional Voluntary Organizations and Changing Forms of Community S. 223-239

„… civil society in order to solve welfare challenges, this raises the question of the capacity of CSOs to …” „… . Related to the overall theme of this book, i.e., whether civil society is a panacea for all seasons, I …” „… , M./Stolle, D. (2003): Generating Social Capital. Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective …”

Eileen Humphreys Social Capital: Is it useful as a policy tool in neighbourhood regeneration? Experiences from Ireland S. 261-287

„… the newer trends in civil society debates in advanced states. To some extent, the most enthusiastic …” „… civil society, in different types of neighbourhood and development performance drawing on Putnam’s …” „… the debate on social capital in civil society and as a policy tool in local area-based policies …”

Lesley Hustinx The Organizational Behaviour of Volunteers Revisited? Explaining Differences in Styles of Volunteering in the Red Cross in Flanders S. 239-261

„… the functioning and sustainability of civil society. Volunteers not only make a significant …” „… contribution to the delivery of various services and activities by civil society organizations, hence …” „… expression of civil society participation, which stands out as a counterforce to the progressive …”

Index S. 305-308

„… CINEFOGO-Network 20, 77 Civic activity 89 Civic perspective 261-263 Civil society organizations (CSOs) 29 …” „… , 287-300 Pope Pius XI 63 Post-communist countries 82, 95-96, 121, 125-125 Post-communist society …” „… State-society relations 101, 111, 116, 264 Styles of volunteering (SOV) 239-258 Subsidiarity 61-76 …”

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