edited by Marlies Glasius, David Lewis and Hakan Seckinelgin.
New York :
Routledge,
2004.
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Exploring civil society internationally; 2 Putting civil society in its place; 3 The problem with civil society; 4 Civil society in multilingual polities; 5 In the church of civil society; 6 Civil society in Latin America; 7 Collective action or public participation?; 8 Civil society in Eastern Europe; 9 Civil society in the United States of America; 10 In Paris, the global place is no longer Saint Germain des Prés; 11 Western Europe; 12 'Old' and 'new' civil societies in Bangladesh.
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This volume explores how the idea of civil society has been translated in different cultural contexts and examines its impact on politics worldwide.