The problematic characteristics of the fundamental concepts «civil society» and «society citizens», origins foundations their formation from standpoint modern views on socio-political processes are considered. Such categories as socio-economic stability, situation being explored. An attempt is made to describe social in relationship with economic, spiritual, political other manifestations mass ...

This paper introduces network analysis as a way to theorize about another dimension of relationships: interorganizational relationships. Through a case study of inter-organizational relationships in the civil society movement in Croatia, this paper outlines the various ways public relations serves a relationship building function. Through the use of network analysis, we propose a model of how o...

This paper, based on the report "The State and Civil Society in Disaster Response: An Analysis of the Tamil Nadu Tsunami Experience," (Srinivasan, Nagaraj, & Venkatesh, 2005) is essentially an empirical analysis of state and civil society responses in Tamil Nadu (India) to the tsunami of December 26, 2004. It examines interventions by state and non-state agencies, as well as people's experience...

Rights-based approaches have become prevalent in development rhetoric and programmes in countries such as India, yet little is known about their impact on development practice on the ground. There is limited understanding of how rights work is carried out in India, a country that has a long history of indigenous rights discourse and a strong tradition of civil society activism on rights issues....

A raft of United Nations Treaties, European Union Directives and domestic laws oblige governments in 180 + countries to apply the Participative Democratic Model of mainstreaming equalities to public administration by involving those targeted by equality initiatives at all stages in their design and delivery. Notwithstanding Participative Democratic Model's deeply political nature, extant work h...