The Civil War And Reconstruction

Between Hopes and Reality : About Civil Society and Political Participation in Hungary Between 1990 and 2010

“…Similarly, Edwards (2009) identifies three categories: He labels the generalist approach as the 'good society' model. Edwards rather emphasizes values, such as tolerance, non-violence or cooperation as the fundamental characteristics of this good society, as opposed to the role of institutions.…”

“…There are eminent authors who have successfully unpacked the concept's centuries-old history, including Adam Seligman (1995), Andrew Arato, Jean L. Cohen (1992) or Jeffrey Alexander (1998), or proposed a categorization of the various usages of the concept. These attempts, however, offer mainly general, context-free categorizations (Edwards, 2009;Perez-Diaz, 1998).…”

“…Measuring the tendencies in exercising rights is quite problematic, since the existing methods, applied by such world-wide reports as Freedom in the World, presents 6 Cf. Dekker (2014); Edwards (2009); Tocqueville (2006). 7 For example, see Salamon (1994); Anheier (1997, 2006) Hungary, surprisingly, as an established democracy 8 , which guarantees civil and political rights on a high level already in the early nineties, and the evaluation does not change throughout the examined period.…”

“…This work has been done by seminal scholars such asSeligman (1995),Cohen and Arato (1992),Keane (1988d) orEdwards (2009) just to name a few.…”

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Kazakhstan's Civil Society Navigates Precarity

“…Civil society actors serve multiple roles, including service provision performed on behalf of the state, strengthening a sense of community that bolsters democratic institutions, and promoting "transparency, accountability, and other aspects of 'good governance.'" 8 Individual civil society actors working in collective organizations do not carry out these tasks in a vacuum, but in a tangled regulatory environment built and enforced by state and international actors alike. Per Ziegler, "Groups [in Central Asia] cannot function outside the state" because "the state provides basic legal and security conditions and sets the parameters for group activity, in the form of laws, regulations, and incentives that both enable and constrain civil society."…”