For some fifteen years, the debate relating to civil society and the roles of the latter accompanied the crisis of post-colonial African societies and the reshaping of international development policies. The "historical hindsight" allows to highlight a vast debate, of a theoretical nature, on...

Civil society in its recent developments is a heterogeneous set of organizations, with an ill-defined political status. Whether one approaches the issue from the standpoint of political philosophy, or from the contingencies of international co-operation, no clear-cut answer can be given to the...

The notion of civil society is blur, as it describes everything that is not from the State. Finding an operational definition that remains flexible enough to encompass the diversity of democratic cultures and forms of expressions is a challenge. This paper proposes to identify the...

This article proposes to show from an approach of the participative and local dimension, the adequacy of the Tunisian policy with the international intentions from the topic of the governance. We will show how the Tunisian State was registered in a step of good governance, by its redeployment...

Under the "community building" banner, Chinese municipalities are encouraged to experiment with a new model of urban management, based on creating grassroots social networks gathering a variety of private and public players to deal with community matters. The informal mobilization of...

The notion of civil society, although regularly criticized, occupies an important place in the politics of development today. The author here aims at formulating certain reflections allowing approaching the study of the non-western civil societies under the angle of projects at the junction of...

The idea of civil society influence on the production, reproduction and transformation institutions in developing countries is a topic for debate. Conceptually, the notion of civil society is ambiguous, while situations arise varied, complex and contradictory in practice. Drawing on the analysis...

Through the analysis of the NGO involvement in the national housing subsidies program developed by Ecuadorian government between 1998 and 2006, this paper aim to show how donors can instrumentalize the sense of the ?civil society participation? promoted by their rhetoric, as well as the...