{"product_id":"civil-society-in-the-age-of-monitory-democracy-7-studies-on-civil-society-7-9780857457561","title":"Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy 7","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the emergence of the dissident \"parallel polis\" in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a \"new superpower,\" influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis is an ambitious effort to capture and contextualize highly diverse broad-ranging trends of contemporary and emerging civil society worldwide and to open a debate on how to theorize these trends. It provides a set of conceptual and theoretical inroads as well as a variety of empirical cases on state–civil society relations and is a welcomed contribution to the field of civil society studies and democratization studies\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, \u003c\/strong\u003eSwedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[A]collection of original and sophisticated chapters. The combination of theoretical and empirical chapters – addressing and debating political activism (understood here through the concept of ‘civil society’) and the state and nature of contemporary democracy in various different contexts – is convincing and makes the collection an attractive and valuable contribution to our understanding of contemporary political dynamics\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSabine Selchow\u003c\/strong\u003e, London School of Economics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLars Trägårdh and Nina Witoszek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Dawn of Monitory Democracy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Keane\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Civil Society in the Age of Crisis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Clark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePaddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Monitory” versus “Managed” Democracy: Does Civil Society Matter in Contemporary Russia?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKathryn Stoner-Weiss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Monitory Democracy and Ecological Civilization in the People’s Republic of China\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJames Miller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tenuous Spaces: Civil Society in Burma\/Myanmar\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Steinberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eKenya’s Green Belt Movement: Contributions, Conflict, Contradictions, and Complications in a Prominent ENGO\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBron Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eA New Direction in Transnational Civil Society: The Politics of Muslim NGO Coalitions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eZeynep Atalay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Anti-Totalitarian Feminism? Civic Resistance in Iran\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNina Witoszek and Haideh Daragahi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Associative Democracy in the Swedish Welfare State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLars Trägårdh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eState Capture of Civil Society: Effects of Patronage in the Norwegian Aid Industry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAsle Toje\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Civil Society as a Driver of Governance Innovation: A Montesquieu Perspective\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAtle Midttun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Afterword: An Ounce of Action is Worth a Ton of Theory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBill McKibben prefaced by Nina Witoszek and Lars Trägårdh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003cbr\u003e \t \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038915166551,"sku":"9780857457561","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857457561.jpg?v=1750941924","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/civil-society-in-the-age-of-monitory-democracy-7-studies-on-civil-society-7-9780857457561","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}