Politics Civil Society and Democratic Government
Contents: Preface. 1. Power, politics and global civil society. 2. The changing Asian family as a site of sate politics. 3. Nuclear disarmament, civil society and democracy. 4. Depoliticizing democracy. 5. Civil society and the development of democracy. 6. Civil society. 7. Global economy, local politics: indigenous struggles, civil society and democracy. 8. The ambiguous role of civil society in deliberative democracy. 9. Hegemony, democracy, agonism and journalism. 10. Contentious politics, local governance and the self. 11. Local governance: institutions, economic diversification, identity. 12. Everyday makers and expert citizens: building political not social capital. Bibliography. Index.
Although there remains considerable dispute about Global Civil Society whom or what it includes, whether it is international or truly global, and how it is constituted there is no doubt that the agents, actors, organisations ad institutions of transnational social and economic exchange and action exist. But what is GCS? Is it a space or locus of sovereign agents, or merely a structural effect? Does it wield compulsory power or it is a mere epiphenomenona, a reflection of the state system? Is GCS as institutional phenomenon, the result of the exercise of power by other actors, or is it a productive phenomenon, constituted by the social roles and relations growing out of cotemporary states and markets.
Although there remains considerable dispute about Global Civil Society whom or what it includes, whether it is international or truly global, and how it is constituted there is no doubt that the agents, actors, organisations ad institutions of transnational social and economic exchange and action exist. But what is GCS? Is it a space or locus of sovereign agents, or merely a structural effect? Does it wield compulsory power or it is a mere epiphenomenona, a reflection of the state system? Is GCS as institutional phenomenon, the result of the exercise of power by other actors, or is it a productive phenomenon, constituted by the social roles and relations growing out of cotemporary states and markets.
