...This chapter discusses the role of citizens and civil society organizations in a social economy and their capabilities to influence food supply chains. Using detailed case studies to analyse the exploitation of immigrant workers in agriculture as well as the response of civil society organizations...

...This chapter explores the origins and aims of the two phases of the WISERD; research programme on civil society. It examines the first phase research agenda and some research results on: locality, community and civil society; individuals, institutions and governance; economic austerity, social...

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...This chapter investigates the development and the role of civil society and the community sector in Thailand’s public policy ecosystem. They are operating across policy fields and taking up various roles in policy analysis, ranging from being a watchdog and a policy advocate of selected policy...

... tradition of quantitative analysis, reports, and presentations, the civil sector extended its advocacy actions and a permanent dialog with policy makers. civil society institutionalization knowledge research centers think tanks Braun M citizenship democracy democratization inflation National...

...At the local level of Mexican politics, civil society still finds ways to influence governments and become part of important decisions. In several Mexican cities, large and small, civil society participation has enriched public affairs, showing that effective collaboration among sectors is possible...

..., bureaucratic support, civil society demands, and financial freedoms. The chapter discusses calibration of fuzzy sets to represent these conditions and introduces a dataset for researching PB worldwide. citizen control co option expectations rules success vetoes Wampler Brian Abers Rebecca Brazil...

...This chapter a logical comparison of the characteristics of cases of participatory budgeting and presents findings to inform the implementation of democratic reform. The touted necessary conditions for empowered participation such as participatory leadership and civil society demand for involvement...

..., their interviewees’ experience of volunteering reflected their experiences of paid employment. The chapter concludes by considering whether the increasing professionalisation within civil society is in some cases placing unwanted pressure and burdens onto volunteers. older people Rees Jones Ian retirement ageing...

... and forms of connection for varying activism. However, the notion of self-care is often linked to neoliberal feminism discussions. The welfare state and civil society structures are considered to be multifaceted infrastructures of care that involve resources, communing, and collectivity. An infrastructural...

... landed, and its structures of power and influence. A healthy society also needs alternative spaces of reflection, in which analysis is addressed not to official decision-makers, but to citizens as a whole. By producing well-founded and “usable” knowledge, such civil society spaces can support and improve...

.... Although governments have a wide variety of tools they can use and options they can take, the complexity of the process they are engaged in, the constraints that governments work under and the reliance on civil society make the outcomes uncertain. Governments have to recognise the role of others and adapt...

...’, ‘pragmatic’ and ‘compassionate’ perspectives. It notes that while the perspectives have much in common in advocating decentralisation and the promotion of civil society, there are critical differences in tone, emphasis and task, which not only result in the Big Society remaining a fairly unfocused...

...This chapter deals with an entirely new approach to the development of civil society, recognising that its form and shape in the twenty-first century will be different from the institutions that Joseph Rowntree knew in 1904. Stronger civil society is also identified as an essential part of any...

... global civil society global social movements In The Power of Identity   Castells (2010) notes that the move towards global network societies has given people a ‘reflexive’ awareness of the world around them. We can now be constantly connected to one another through the likes...

... homogenous exchanges pantouflage ‘political’ personnel Political Support business associations NGOs exchanges of personnel public and civil society actors human resource policies political personnel political support recruitment policies The strategies developed and actions carried out by public...

...’ own. In this chapter the authors strive to answer existing research desiderata by exploring the role of Pussy Riot as a civil society actor in the emancipation of women in a national as well as international setting. In order to address this issue, the authors explore the political, societal...

... as long as NGOs and other supportive parties provide adequate input for provisional capacity building. Finally, the article underscores challenges to and prerequisites for enabling other NGOs to play such a role, to serve as a resource for other civil society organisations. civil society organisations...

... youth employment and education in informal settlements, and territorial characteristics; the role of civil society organisations in the dynamics of capability expansion in informal settlements; and the role of culture and religion in promoting agency and capability expansion. The chapter concludes...

... spatial practices and space representation, this chapter argues that detected particular characteristics of Maidan-Sich 2014 can be interpreted as the marks of empowerment of the recently emerged civil society and make of it an important object of study for those who want to grasp the essence...