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 the CCP from a class towards a people's party, the...

Sports civic organizations are essential for Hungarian society, especially for young people's lives, constituting a crucial part of the corpus of civil society organizations. The performance and output of these were rarely examined; still, activity forms of an organization and their managerial...

Dieses Interview gibt Auskunft über die normative Ambivalenz des zivilgesellschaftli-chen Sektors. Einerseits erfüllen NGOs wichtige wirtschaftliche und politische Funktio-nen. Sie stellen Güter und Dienstleistungen bereit. Und sie engagieren sich in der öffent-lichen Interessenvertretung....

Mit Jürgen Habermas' Postsäkularisierungsthese und Niklas Luhmanns gemäßigtem Postmodernismus werden in diesem Aufsatz zwei Sichtweisen einer über sich selbst hinauswachsenden Moderne dargestellt. Der gemeinsame Ursprung beider Theoreme wird in der systemtheoretischen Weiterentwicklung von...

Introduction : activism from above -- States and the domestic political economy of NGOs -- Political globalization, "civil society" politics, and the global growth of NGOs in the 1980s-2000s -- International development NGOs in Japan -- Sustainable development and advocacy NGOs in Japan --...

During recent years, civil society legitimacy has generated a growing interest in scholarly research. The present article therefore proposes four normative criteria, namely, independence, transparency, participation, and inclusion, in order to start assessing civil society legitimacy...