Edwards M. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society

New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 552 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-539857-1.In the past two decades, "civil society" has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and private life, the civil sphere encompasses everything from associations to protests to church groups to nongovernmental organizations. Interest in the topic exploded with the decline of statism in the 1980s and 1990s, and many of our current debates about politics and social policy are informed by the renewed focus on civil society. Michael Edwards, author of the most authoritative single-authored book on civil society, serves as the editor for The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society. Broadly speaking, the book views the topic through three prisms: as a part of society (voluntary associations), as a kind of society (marked out by certain social norms), and as a space for citizen action and engagement (the public square or sphere). It does not focus solely on the West (a failing of much of the literature to date), but looks at civil society in both the developed and developing worlds. Throughout, it merges theory, practice, and empirical research. In sum, The Oxford Handbook on Civil Society will be the definitive work on the topic.Michael Edwards is currently Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos in New York, Senior Visiting Scholar at the Robert F Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University in the UK. He is also the former Senior Advisor to World Bank on Civil Society and the former Director of the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program.The History of Civil Society Ideas / John Ehrenberg
The Non-Profit Sector / Steven R. Smith
Development NGOs / Alan Fowler
Grassroots Associations / Frances Kunreuther
Social Movements / Donatella Della Porta and Mario Diani
Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurs / Alex Nicholls
Global Civil Society / Lisa Jordan
Civil Society in the United States / Theda Skocpol
Civil Society in Latin America / Evelina Dagnino
Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe / Marc Morjé Howard
Civil Society in the Middle East / Eberhard Kienle
Civil Society in China / Jude Howell
Civil Society in India / Neera Chandhoke
Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ebenezer Obadare
Civil Society and Social Capital / Michael Woolcock
Civil and Uncivil Society / Clifford Bob
Civil Society and Civility / Nina Eliasoph
Civil Society and Equality / Sally Kohn
Civil Society and Diversity / Hilde Coffé and Catherine Bolzendahl
Civil Society and Religion / Donald E. Miller
Civil Society and Spirituality / Claudia Horwitz
Civil Society and Government / Nancy L. Rosenblum and Charles H.T. Lesch
Civil Society and Civil Liberties / Mark Sidel
Civil Society and the Public Sphere / Craig Calhoun
Civil Society and Public Work / Harry C. Boyte
Civil Society in the Digital Age / Roberta G. Lentz
Civil Society and Public Journalism / Charles Lewis
Civic Knowledge / Peter Levine
Civil Society and Democracy / Mark E. Warren
Civil Society and Poverty / Solava Ibrahim and David Hulme
Civil Society and Peace / Jenny Pearce
Civil Society and Power / John Gaventa
Civil Society and the Market / Simon Zadek
Civil Society and Institutional Philanthropy / William A. Schambra and Krista L. Shaffer
Civil Society and Grassroots Philanthropy / G. Albert Ruesga
Assisting Civil Society and Promoting Democracy / Omar G. Encarnación
Civil society as a necessary and necessarily contested idea / Michael Edwards