It is often claimed that the participation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) can mitigate the democratic deficit of … the European Union. This claim rests on the assumption that civil society organizations channel citizens' concerns to the …

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) play an active and noteworthy role in governance, both at the national and …

definition of the third sector arguing in favour of a coming together of the concepts of civil society and social economy - what …

development and to its democracy. Civil society in India has led the achievement of development goals and civil and political … crises. The marginalisation of civil society actors by a private sector empowered by economic liberalisation, on the one hand … against civil society and points toward the actions necessary to confront them. …

Resource-rich dictatorships are more inclined to repress civil society than others. In this paper, we identify a … tradeoff between political rents from natural resources and the organizational density of civil society. This organizational …

The food, environmental and economic crises have challenged civil society organizations (CSOs) and the communities they … Civil Society Steering Committee, was undertaken in 2009 that measured the impact of the crises on the operating capacity of … CSOs around the world and their expectations as they look ahead. This study examines the current situation of CSOs as …