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Office Obligation as Civil Virtue: The Crisis of American Democracy, November 3, 2020–January 6, 2021, and After
This essay develops a new theoretical and empirical understanding of the contemporary crisis of American democracy. Between November 3, 2020, and...
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The Added Value of Civil Society Organizations in the Provision of Welfare State Services
Civil society organizations (CSOs) that deliver services on behalf of public authorities operate under increased competitive and standardization...
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Capturing the Role of Civil Society for Urban Sustainability in Nepal
Rapid urbanisation and urban population growth raise problems for sustainability. The unplanned and haphazard patterns of urbanisation, with a...
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The Electoral Legacies of Civil War Violence: Theory and Evidence from a Maoist-affected State in India
The literature on the electoral legacies of civil war violence offers a puzzle. While one strand of research argues that indiscriminate rebel...
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The So-called Failure of the State: Rethinking the State, Civil Society, and Criminal Organizations
In the field of international relations, we tend to apply the premises of political realism to our understanding of transnational criminal...
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The Civil Sphere
In twentieth-century Mexico, violence remained under control for more than seventy years thanks to solid, symbolic patrimonial and institutional...
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Contestation of Civil Society Elites: Targets, Sources, and Depths in Four National Contexts
Civil society is currently marked by two major trends—one is the shrinking civic space, as civil society actors are increasingly met with ideological...
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Michels, Mills and Civil Society Elites: Concluding Reflections and Avenues for Future Research
In this concluding chapter, we analyse the volume’s main findings and the paradoxical meaning of the concept of civil society elites using a classic...
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Reform: Success and Failure, Civil Service and Conflict of Interest
Reform of the Civil service became a pressing question by the mid-nineteenth century. It was driven by the need for greater efficiciency,...
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Moral Elites and the De-Paradoxification of Danish Social Policy Between Civil Society and State (1849–2022)
The article argues that in Denmark during the past 150 years, moral elites have been central in settling paradoxes within social policy by develo**...
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Heimatgefühl and the Reconfiguration of Civil Society
To prove stable in the long run, democratic institutions need to do more than represent citizens in a territorial sense; they must also allow for...
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Global Civil Society in Retreat: Is It Cyclical or Existential?
This chapter tries to answer the question whether the recent “shrinking” of global civil society is an existential or a cyclical phenomenon. It...
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Civil Society Encroachment in Nonliberal Democracies: The Case of Israel
In recent decades, many nations saw a major political shift, manifested in democratic regression, rising populist illiberal democracies,...
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Regional Thickening as Game-Changing: Gender and Women Civil Society Actors in Southern Africa
This chapter presents a detailed examination of the game-changing activities of gender and women-focused civil society grou**s within SADC...
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Walking on a Tightrope: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society Organizations Working with Refugees and Migrants in Turkey
This qualitative study sheds light onto the working structures, make-up, and strengths and weaknesses of civil society organizations working with...
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From Awkwardness to Action Christian Voluntarism in Denmark Beyond the Sector Model of Civil Society
The article challenges the theoretical “sectoral model” of civil society through a historical case study and offers an alternative actor-centered...
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Civil society in Pakistan: an exclusive discourse of projectization
This article analyzes the discourse of civil society in its actual manifestation at the societal level. In the West, civil society developed with the...
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‘This is what it is like to be church’: the Church of Sweden’s conditions for work with newly arrived refugees
Many newly arrived refugees suffer from mental health problems due to trauma. Research has shown that social participation after migration, such as...
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Hierarchization, Boundary Making, and Inequality: Exploring the Structural Changes of Chinese Grassroots NGOs in a Transition Era
Grassroots nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) around the world have experienced a process of hierarchization in recent years. However, little is...
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Intermediaries and illegal gratification in the Indonesian bureaucracy of Muslim marriage
Family law has been a fundamental issue in the negotiation of the relationship between the state and religion at the national level. For more than...