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Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
As well as promoting debates about liberal democracy, the dramatic events of 1989 also bought forth a powerful revival in the interest of the notion of civil society. This revival was reflected mainly in two broad tracts of literature. The first was primarily focused on the events surrounding the So...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Changing Europe.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Part I. Dissent under Socialism; 1. Smashing Concrete with Words. The Central European 'Dissidents', Their Representationsand Discourses; 2. The Second Life of the Polish Art World in the Eighties; Part II. Civil Society and Ethnic Divisions. The Case of the Western Balkans; 3. History and Memory. Media Discourse and theConstruction of National Identities; 4. Mapping the Ephemeral. Yugoslav Civic Activism and the 1990s Confl icts; 5. External Democracy Promotion of Civil Society inEthnically Fragmented Post-Socialist Countries.
- Part III. Finding One's Place in Civil Society. Examples from Russia6. Walking the Tightrope. Russian Disability NGOs' Strugglewith International and Domestic Demands; 7. Striving for Social Change. NGOs in the Field of HIV/AIDS, Drug Policy and Human Rights in the Russian Federation; Part IV. Civil Society after EU Accession; 8. Differential Empowerment for Institutional Change. The EU's Impact on State and Non-State Actors in EasternEurope; 9. The Introduction of Regional Self-Governance in theCzech Republic and Slovakia. EU Conditionality vis-à-visDomestic Societal Pressures.
- 10. German and Polish 'Memory from Below'Part V. Political Participation and Lobbying; 11. Can Civil Society Play a Role in Foreign Policy?Societal Groups in the Czech Republic; 12. The (Un)Importance of Public Opinion in EducationalPolicy-Making in Post-Communist Ukraine. EducationPolicy 'Elites' on the Role of Civil Society in PolicyFormation; About the Authors.