Civil society is currently a popular concept in the political science literature, appearing across a number of different studies and sub-disciplines. Authors such as Deakin (2001) and Keane (1998) have discussed the widespread employment of the concept where its use ranges from discussions of global civil society in International Relations and the political economy, to civic renewal and social ...

This policy review analyzes the international cooperation experienced in Indonesia during COVID-19 pandemic, specifically concerning vaccine cooperation. It examines debates of within from government, parliament, religious organizations, civil society, and mass media. Although some feel pessimistic about cooperation, results found that has a positive impact on Indonesia. is because gradually af...

The use of eParticipation by civil society actors is rapidly evolving. New socio-technical tools, devices, applications, services, networks enable a revitalization or foster new forms of social and political actions. Currently the civil society movements adopt and shape them to better organize, inform, communicate, and disseminate their (counter-) public and the traditional political system and...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched the “End TB Strategy” [1] and, in collaboration with the European Respiratory Society, launched the framework for tuberculosis (TB) elimination in low-incidence countries [2]. Both documents focus on ending the global TB epidemic by 2035, through stimulating collaborative actions at country level and increased cooperation between high and lo...

introduction a considerable percentage of the world’s population is living in the coastal areas. thus, there are many different kinds of problems in these regions. because of the large amount of the people in these areas, their ecosystems are confronted with huge and serious problems. there are different types of arrangements for preventing destruction of ecosystems around the seas. unified man...

This paper acknowledges the quantity of research and evaluative studies that has been done on non-governmental organizations, civil society and third sector questions over the past decades and more recently in relation to Eastern Europe. However, in an effort to increase the policy relevance of future studies, it takes a critical stance with regard to the way these topics have been framed in th...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 160–179. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Private libraries in China—most of which were created by bottom-up processes, not top-down government mandates—offer a diversity of services to a range of constituencies. They offer individuals space for reading and study, i...

During the 1990s, civil society emerged as the prime political force in the policy agenda of the major lenders and development agencies. An active civil society, it was believed, would enable choice, scrutinise errant governments, and ultimately lead to regularised, plural democracy. This article subjects this policy discourse to theoretical and empirical scrutiny. Theoretically, civil society ...

using discourse analysis theories and methods, the authors try to analyze the elements of the civil modern family pattern as an outcome and objective adequacy of the civil society in the three descriptive, interpretative and explanative levels in the perspective of the contemporary socio-political history of the iranian society. to this end, the authors develop and employ a synthetic model (bas...

Despite its ubiquity in popular and academic discourses, consensus about the epistemological status of the idea of civil society remains elusive. In Africa, the literature is circumscribed by doubts about, first, its applicability; and second, the usefulness of civil society in explicating social processes on the continent. This has generated a conflictive, yet deeply illuminating, scholarship....