INDEV100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Civil Society, Social Forces, Good Governance
9 Nov 2020
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Civil society - was achieved through democratisation - it paralleled a similar process at the economic level. Civil society seen as an agent for : Reducing the atomising and unsettling effects of market forces. Improving the quality and inclusiveness of governance. Three different traditions with the term civil society: associated with a mainstream form of political science and economics in which politics and economics are treated as analytical distinct systems, can be labelled - Liberal: as a repository of popular resistance to government policies and the basis of a counterhegemonic block of social forces engaged in a process of contesting state and other forms of class power. It is based on a radical ideology: international co-operation for development - civil society is viewed as a participatory and empowering form of development. Whether civil society should be in the form of social movements :
