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In the second, revised edition of this indispensable book, the author looks behind 'the mirror of power' to discover the reality of civil society - or 'Big Society', as it has become known.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Powell, Frederick W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy, [2013]
Edición:2nd edition.
Temas:
Civil society.
Social policy.
Political participation.
Welfare state.
Société civile.
Politique sociale.
Participation politique.
État providence.
public policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Civil society
Political participation
Social policy
Welfare state
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Politics of Civil Society
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Doublethink: the 'Big Society, Small Government' debate
  • Narrative 1: Big Society with Chinese characteristics
  • Narrative 2: conservatism, Big Society and 'little platoons'
  • Narrative 3: The Third Way and Big Society
  • Narrative 4: strong democracy, 'Big Society' and social Left
  • Conclusion
  • 2. The renaissance of civil society
  • Civil society, democracy and politics
  • The metanarrative of civil society
  • Postmodernity: the end of the grand narrative
  • Philosophical debates: civil society in Europe and America
  • Civil society at 'the end of history'
  • Postmodernity, consciousness and democracy: in search of a new political imaginary
  • Active citizenship, civil society and development
  • Civil society, democracy and the 'third sector'
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Modernity, civil society and civic virtue
  • Power, virtue and humanism
  • The theology of charity
  • Medicine, charity and poverty
  • Vagrancy, punishment and deterrence
  • The politics of poverty
  • Utopian socialism, mutualism and communitarianism
  • Marx: 'the Machiavelli of the proletariat'
  • Fabian socialism, civic virtue and social policy
  • Philanthropy, active citizenship and social reform
  • Social crusading, anti-slavery and civil society
  • The ideology of voluntarism: private versus public welfare
  • Civil society, counter-publics and café society
  • Associative democracy, civil society and collective self-help
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Radical civil society, early social movements and the socialisation of the state
  • Modernism and the quest for social justice
  • The American Revolution and unknown civil society: birthing social movements
  • Liberty, equality and civil society
  • Civil society: the right to associate
  • The French Revolution, social policy and civil society.
  • German civil society, the emergence of a public sphere
  • Russia, modernisation and civil society
  • Socialism and welfare: a Faustian bargain or utopian ideal?
  • Socialising the state: welfare and social reform
  • The fusion of civil society and state
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Nietzsche's revenge: totalitarian big society
  • The politics of totalitarianism
  • Totalitarian communitarianism and big society
  • Nazi charity, national community and communicative power
  • 'Community aliens' and populist authoritarianism
  • Pogrom, civil society and anti-Semitism
  • Associationalism, dis-welfare and genocide
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Rights talk, new social movements and civic revolts
  • Human rights and existential humanism
  • Civil society and revolt: the velvet revolutions
  • The peace rebellion and existential rights
  • Planetary citizenship and environmental rights
  • Moral voices, new subjectivities and reflective citizenship
  • Globalisation, sans movements and emancipatory rights
  • The Arab Spring
  • The Occupy movement and zombie capitalism
  • The outraged: los indignados and Aganakismenoi
  • Pussy Riot and Russian punk anarchism
  • The psychopolitics of crisis: apocalypse now?
  • Rights talk and the defence of the commons
  • Conclusion
  • 7. American exceptionalism, multicultural civil society and Plato's noble lie
  • Multiculturalism, social movements and recognition
  • Poor people's movements and civil rights
  • The Great Society and the war on poverty
  • American exceptionalism, neoconservatism and Plato's Noble Lie
  • The Tea Party and insurgent populism
  • Neoconservatism: the end of welfare in America
  • Rapture: the credo of cultural conservatism
  • Faith-based charity in America: resacralising society
  • A new theology of power?
  • Tocquevillians versus Gramscians
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Global civil society: myth or reality?
  • Civil society, globalisation and the state: the NGOisation of the public sphere
  • Poverty, global civil society and international aid
  • Global civil society and NGOs
  • Anti-globalisation and world development
  • World poverty, social policy and Poor Law politics
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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