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However, as civil society can be funded by foreign businesses and institutions, who support globalization, this is a contested use. [50] Rapid development of civil society on the global scale after the fall of the communist system was a part of neo-liberal strategies linked to the Washington Consensus. [51]
Adam Ferguson. An Essay on the History of Civil Society is a book by Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson, first published in 1767. [1] The Essay established Ferguson's reputation in Britain and throughout Europe. [2]
A civil society organization (CSO) is a group of people that operates in the community in a way that is distinct from both government and business. [1] Please see: Civil society; Non-governmental organization; Social movement organization
A civil society campaign specifically involves civil society, which is the part of society that actively interacts with critical reflection and public deliberation, in order to organize mechanisms like social movements and use democratic tools such as lobbying in order to instigate social change. [1]
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In 1999 Edwards left the World Bank and moved to the Ford Foundation where for nine years he directed the Governance and Civil Society Program. Just before leaving the Foundation in 2008 he wrote a controversial pamphlet for Demos and the Young Foundation called “Just Another Emperor: The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism,” which challenged the trend to introduce business ...
The Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change (CSCCC) is an entity that maintains a website and describes itself as a global group of non-profit organizations with a mission of "seek[ing] to educate the public about the science and economics of climate change in an impartial manner." The Coalition identifies its membership as including 60 ...
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