The Politics of Civil Society: Big Society and Small Government

ISBN-13: 9781447307150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str.

Fred Powell

Opis

In this fully revised edition of his groundbreaking book, Fred Powell looks behind -the mirror of power- to discover the real civil society--or Big Society--that lies beneath it. Articulating three forms of civil society--radical, liberal, and conservative--he examines a complex interplay between state and community, arguing that citizens contend for power via civil society. This is both a historic pursuit dating to antiquity and a contemporary democratic struggle between competing visions of modernity, the stakes of which are no less than -real- politics themselves as experienced by everyday citizens. The second edition includes a new concluding chapter on practical and policy implications.

Spis treści

Introduction; Doublethink: the Big Society, Small Government Debate; The renaissance of civil society; Modernity, civil society and civic virtue; Radical Civil Society, Early Social Movements and the Socialisation of the State; Nietzsche’s Revenge: Totalitarian Big Society; Rights talk, New Social Movements and Civic Revolts; American Exceptionalism, Multicultural Civil Society and Plato’s Noble Lie; Global civil society: myth or reality?.