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Manufacturing Civil Society

Principles, Practices and Effects

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Editors:
  1. Taco Brandsen

    1. Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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  2. Willem Trommel

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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  3. Bram Verschuere

    1. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Ghent, Belgium

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Manufacturing Civil Society: An Introduction

    • Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Willem Trommel
    Pages 1-14

  3. ‘You’re Either with Us or against Us’: Manufacturing Civility in the Netherlands

    • Rik Peeters
    Pages 15-33

  4. Diversity and Ambiguity in the English Third Sector: Responding to Contracts and Competition in Public Service Delivery

    • Jenny Harlock
    Pages 34-53

  5. How Viable Is the Big Society? Perceptions from Environmental NGOs in the United Kingdom

    • Rory Shand, Roger Higman
    Pages 54-69

  6. Civil Society Organisations as a Government Steering Mechanism: A Comparison between Sport Associations and Patient Organisations in the Netherlands

    • Maikel Waardenburg, Hester van de Bovenkamp
    Pages 70-95

  7. New Forms of Dependency in Central and Eastern Europe? Reflections on State—Third Sector Relations in Public Service Provision in Post-Communist Countries

    • Roxana Radu, Daniel Pop
    Pages 96-115

  8. New Challenges for the Cooperation between Civil Society and the Public Sector: The National Voluntary Service in Germany

    • Annelie Beller, Rabea Haß
    Pages 116-135

  9. Public Governance of Welfare Services in Italy

    • Simona Franzoni
    Pages 136-158

  10. The Autonomy of Organised Civil Society in Strategic Policy Decision-Making: A Resource-Dependence Perspective

    • Joris De Corte, Bram Verschuere
    Pages 159-181

  11. Controlling or Empowering Non-Profit Organisations?: Dimensions of Accountability in Singapore

    • Ora-orn Poocharoen, Fazlin Abdullah
    Pages 182-205

  12. Active Citizenship: From Panacea to Political Program — In Search of an Appealing Narrative

    • Hans Boutellier
    Pages 206-222

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 223-224
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About this book

Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities, civil society and citizenship. As a result, civil society is increasingly brought within the realm of public management, subject to accountability and embedded in hierarchies the impact and origins of which this book explores

Reviews


"This volume covers key questions about the relationship between civil society and government. It will be a valuable addition to research on civil society and the third sector."

Mary Tschirhart, Professor of Non-Profit Management, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, USA

"Manufactured Civil Society addresses an understudied aspect of public management and will be of great value to the debate on an important topic."

Stephen Osborne, Chair of International Public Management and Deputy Dean of the Business School, University of Edinburgh, UK

"This book will be a very useful contribution to teaching materials for university courses on the topics of civil society and the role of governments".

Annette Zimmer, Professor of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany

Editors and Affiliations

  • Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

    Taco Brandsen

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Willem Trommel

  • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Ghent, Belgium

    Bram Verschuere

About the editors

Fazlin Abdullah, National Council of Social Service in Singapore Annelie Beller, gfa | public GmbH, Germany Hans Boutellier, Verwey-Jonker Institute, the Netherlands Hester van de Bovenkamp Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Joris De Corte, Ghent University, Belgium Simona Franzoni, Brescia University, Italy Rabea Haß, Hertie School of Governance, Germany and the Center for Social Investment of Heidelberg University, Germany Roger Higman, Plymouth University, UK Rik Peeters, Tilburg University, the Netherlands and the Netherlands School of Public Administration Ora-orn Poocharoen, National University of Singapore Daniel Pop, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Roxana Radu, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland Rory Shand, Plymouth University, UK Maikel Waardenburg, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

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