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The Trouble with Islam : A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji
Whitewashing Race : The Myth of a Color-Blind Society by Michael K. Brown
Unequal Protection : The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann
Civility by Stephen L. Carter
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? by David Brin
Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State by Paul Ginsborg
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
The State of Civil Society in Japan by Frank J. Schwartz
Brown V Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) by Robert J. Cottrol
Civil Society by Michael Edwards
Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society by Bob Doppelt
American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It by Richard N. Rosenfeld
Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies by Cheryl Benard
Global Civil Society? by John Keane
Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government by Ethan J. Leib
Civil society(Redirected from Civil Society)
Civil society or civil institutions are the total of civic and social organizations or institutions that form the bedrock of a functioning democracy. Civil society groups advocate and take action primarily for social development and public interest.
While there are a myriad definitions of civil society, the London School of Economics Center for Civil Society working definition is illustrative:
Civil society refers to the set of institutions, organisations and behaviour situated between the state, the business world, and the family. Specifically, this includes voluntary and non-profit organisations of many different kinds, philanthropic institutions, social and political movements, other forms of social participation and engagement and the values and cultural patterns associated with them.
Examples of civil institutions:
The term is currently often used by critics and activists as a reference to sources of resistance to and the domain of social life which needs to be protected against globalization. However, within the United Nations context, the phrase "civil society" has been a source of some controversy, as its meaning also includes businesses as well as private voluntary organisations - see United Nations: Partners in Civil Society
See also: NGO, NGOs in Consultative Status, social capital, civilisation, sociology, political science
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