Gender considerations and civil society are both major issues in the current debate about the implementation of EU …

. Through an interpretative history based on Gramscian concepts it shows how civil society organizations were gradually enlisted … capital and society, in particular historical circumstances. These solutions also situated civil society as agents of …

Interest in the concept of civil society has undergone a remarkable renaissance in the 1990s. It is currrently seen as … civil society mean ? Can civil society really be a counterweight to governments which have become too remote from their … people ? The Western concept of what constitutes civil society may well have to be adjusted when applied to developing …

coalitions of elites capturing rents from the society while limiting access of ordinary people. A feature of natural states …, whether fragile, basic or mature, is that organisations in the society are unable to exist and function independently of the … any prospect of conceiving civil society independently of the state. Being so heavily aid dependent in the recent past …