This paper analyzes the question whether or not in China structures of a civil society are emerging. It addresses the … increasing separation of state and society, the society's differentiation, growing social and spatial disparities, the turn of … Internet. It concludes that the application of the term 'civil society' in this case is highly problematic as citizens in …

During recent years, civil society legitimacy has generated a growing interest in scholarly research. The present … to start assessing civil society legitimacy empirically. It does so by using the non-proliferation regime as a field of …

The involvement of civil society in EU governance is widely interpreted as a right step in the direction of … participatory democracy. Civil society associations are expected to communicate the concerns of citizens to Brussels, to engage in …