Civil Society and Civic Consciousness

Making a humanities town: knowledge-infused clusters, civic entrepreneurship and civil society in local innovation systems

Knowledge-infused clusters, involving governmental and university, as well as firm actors are the epitome of contemporary economic development strategy. The role of Southern Oregon University (SOU) in the inception of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) gives rise to a model for education-focused universities to play a significant role in local economic development through creation of cultura...

Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action

democracy and civil society

since there are various views on the civil society, in this paper the writer first introduces two main views, a limited view and a broad view, explaining the concept based on these two views. the two views, formed by social and political theorists, are firmly grounded in political and social literature. to explain the concept, the writer introduces the indexes of the civil society, the most imp...

Civil Society as Idea and Civil Society as Process : The Case of Ghana

The idea of civil society contains a set of assumptions about the unity of civil society, the civility of civil society, the ‘separateness’ of civil society and the state, and the intrinsic relationship between civil society and democracy. All of these assumptions can be questioned by examining civil society in a specific country context. In the case of Ghana, processes in civil society have al...

The Price of Civil Society

Most work in algorithmic game theory assumes that players ignore costs incurred by their fellow players. In this paper, we consider superimposing a social network over a game, where players are concerned with minimizing not only their own costs, but also the costs of their neighbors in the network. We aim to understand how properties of the underlying game are affected by this alteration to the...