Policy Options for Civil Society

Year: 
1994

Through complementary contrasts (Part #1)


Presented to a Seminar on State and Society at the Russian Public Policy Center (Moscow, 6-8 December 1994) under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The introduction and the first part of this paper appeared in NGOs and Civil Society: Some Realities and Distortions: the challenge of "Necessary-to-Governance Organizations" (NGOs) published in Transnational Associations, 47, 1995, 3, pp. 156-180. Only links to these introductory parts are therefore provided here.
This paper
Introduction
A. APPROACHES TO CIVIL SOCIETY
1. Possibilities of the legal approach
2. Effective functioning of society
3. Efficiency and effectiveness approach
4. Economic approach
5. Political approach
6. Social approach
References

B. DEFINITIONAL CHALLENGES