Fröhlich, Katrin Agnes
Pričujoče delo opozarja na prepogosto napačno družbeno razumevanje tretjega sektorja, ki ga tvorijo nevladne organizacije. Napačna interpretacija njihovega delovanja s strani družbe je vseponavljajoče se širše družbeno prepričanje, ki vodi v slabše delovanje tovrstnih organizacij, pa tudi v prikrajšanost družbe v smislu kakovostnih ter izpopolnjujo...
Heller, Patrick
Given the legacies of colonialism and the inequities of the global capitalist system, consolidated democracies in the Global South were the exception prior to the third wave of democratization in the 1970s. As democratization in the Global South grew, a first generation of work by sociologists challenged mainstream political science's preoccupation...
Miodoński, Leon
This article deals with the comparative approach of two philosophers of the German Enlightenment Immanuel Kant and Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel in the context of socio- political issues, primarily civil society, civil rights, and civility. The article consists of three parts. First part – presentation of the era of Frederick II, in particular the co...
Kenney-Lazar, M. Suhardiman, Diana Hunt, G.
Land policy reform has dominated the development agenda across the Global South over the past two decades. In contrast with earlier distributive land reforms, contemporary policies reflect an amalgamation of neoliberal, state territorial, and social justice agendas. This paper demonstrates how land policy changes reflect the spatially extensive and...
Edwards, Brett Novossiolova, Tatyana Crowley, Michael Whitby, Simon Dando, Malcolm Shang, Lijun
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Frontiers in Political Science
In this report, we identify some of the key technical and political challenges currently facing the broader Chemical and Biological Weapon (CBW) regime- with a particular emphasis on major forthcoming diplomatic meetings. Most significantly the Ninth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (1972) (BTWC) which will take pla...
saghin;, despina
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lock-down have highlighted the growing awareness of the need to involve the population in solving problems that directly affect the existence and trajectory of the life of the individual and civil society in the local, national, and regional context. The article aims both to analyze the reaction of formal and informal ...
Leap, Braden Stalp, Marybeth C Kelly, Kimberly
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Antipode
Do volunteers and civil society groups entrench or subvert neoliberalisation? We contribute to this debate by utilising data from 662 self-administered questionnaires and 78 semi-structured interviews with adults who made and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to a failed federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA...
Sehmi, Kawaldip Wale, Janet L.
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Frontiers in Medical Technology
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted global knowledge about, but lack of equitable access to, life-changing medicines, and other innovative medical products by populations in African low and middle income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) and other international non-profit foundations and organizations are constantly striving to addre...
Bill, Stanley
This article shows how Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), is attempting to apply its general strategy of “elite replacement” in a modified way to civil society. Since independent civil society organizations are not subject to arbitrary state control of appointments (unlike public institutions), this strategy has required a more complex ...
Malmqvist, Elin