Civil Society
Submitted by Nunka on January 9, 2009
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Civil Society
During the growing disillusionment with the State over the past few decades and changes in political systems, attention has shifted towards allowing civil society a greater role in the public sectors. Civil society is defined as “the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. In theory, its institutional forms are distinct from those of the state, family and market, though in practice, the boundaries between state, civil society, family and market are often complex, blurred and negotiated. Civil society commonly embraces a diversity of spaces, actors and institutional forms, varying in their degree of formality, autonomy and power. Civil societies...
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