Essay: Rethinking Global Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Age of Pro-democracy Movements

Feenstra, Ramón A.

doi:10.1080/17448689.2017.1359886

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“…They involve the use of a predominantly statistical method. This method shows the state but does not reveal the driving forces of the process of building civil society as in some political systems either on regional or on the global level (Feenstra, 2017). Institutionalism does not answer the fundamental questions: Why in some countries stable and influential entities of civil society were formed independently, while in other countries public organizations, even created by external forces, are disintegrated, or work inefficiently?…”

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The role of the factors determining national character in building civil society

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Sheremet²,

Suslykov

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Cuest. Pol.

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The article deals with the mechanism of impact of sociopsychological phenomena such as the national character and the political mentality in the construction and functioning of civil society. It aims to show the impact of climate, religion, and the perception of happiness on the state of civil society through details of a national nature. The main research method is to compare data from global research on the state of civil society with data from climatic conditions, dominant religions, and happiness indices. The article proves coincidently that these factors are reflected in such essential characteristics of civil society as "openness" and "closed-mindedness". The interaction between the national character and the construction of civil society has two stages. It is concluded that the results obtained are important to evaluate the prospects for the construction and development of civil society in different countries and regions of the world. Further research in this direction involves the study of other aspects of the impact of national character and political mindset on the functioning of civil society.

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The role of the factors determining national character in building civil society

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Sheremet²,

Suslykov

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Cuest. Pol.

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Social Movements and the Transnational Transformation of Public Spheres

Bourne

2017

Journal of Civil Society

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In July 2015, as Greeks voted in a referendum on the conditions of a third International Monetary Fund (IMF)-European Union (EU) bailout, many social movements around the world rallied, under the banner of the Greek 'No' campaign's 'Oxi' slogan, in protest against the introduction of further austerity measures in Greece and beyond. The international media, both old and new, covered the referendum in Greece extensively. Indeed in the latter, expressions of solidarity with Greece left a large footprint, with, for example, the hashtag #ThisIsACoup becoming the second top trending topic on Twitter worldwide (The Guardian, 2015). These were, of course, just a handful of the many thousands of acts of protest mobilized against austerity policies adopted by authorities at multiple territorial levels since the beginning of the financial crisis (

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Concluding Essay: Social Activism Against Austerity – The Conditions for Participatory and Deliberative Forms of Democracy

Boje

2017

Journal of Civil Society

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Essay: Rethinking Global Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Age of Pro-democracy Movements

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

The role of the factors determining national character in building civil society

The role of the factors determining national character in building civil society

Social Movements and the Transnational Transformation of Public Spheres

Concluding Essay: Social Activism Against Austerity – The Conditions for Participatory and Deliberative Forms of Democracy

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