Features of Civil Society Institutions: International Experience

From disaster to sustainable civil society: the Kobe experience.

Nine years after the Kobe earthquake in Japan, social issues are still prominent, and the rehabilitation process is still ongoing. The earthquake caused two major changes in Japanese society: an increase in voluntary and non-government activities, and the enhancement of cooperation between local government and the residents' association. People's participation in the decision-making process was...

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...

Social Origins of Civil Society:

PREFACE This is one in a series of Working Papers produced by the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, a collaborative effort by scholars in over twenty countries to understand the scope, structure, and role of the nonprofit sector using a common framework and approach. The Working Papers provide a vehicle for the initial dissemination of the work of the Project to an internation...

development management and civil institutions

development management is one of the newest fields of social sciences brought about by multidisciplinary approaches. the roots of these approaches are traced in the writings of adorno, horkheimer, marcuse and habermas, pioneers of the frankfurt school. as an interdisciplinary field, mostly applied, development management is obviously the fruit of civil society, a society that values participato...

Towards a Global Civil Society