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Civil society in the Baltic Sea region

Title
Civil society in the Baltic Sea region / edited by Norbert Götz and Jörg Hackmann.
Publication
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Götz, Norbert, 1965-
  • Hackmann, Jörg.
Description
xiv, 274 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Nineteen experts from the region provide a comprehensive and comparative account of the history, the present state and the perspectives of civil society in the Baltic Sea area. The reader will learn that civil society should not only be seen in opposition to the state and that it has a major impact on current developments of European integration."--Jacket.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-264) and index.
Contents
The Concept of Civil Society -- Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region: Towards a Hybrid Theory / Norbert Gotz, Jorg Hackmann -- State, Citizenship and Civil Society / Henrik Stenius -- Is Civil Society Possible without Bourgeois Society? / Dariusz Gawin -- Historical Perspectives -- Century of Corporatism or Century of Civil Society? The Northern European Experience / Norbert Gotz -- Civil Society against the State? Historical Experiences of Eastern Europe / Jorg Hackmann -- Obshchestvennost': Russia's Lost Concept of Civil Society / Vadim Volkov -- Preconditions in the Baltic Sea Region -- Some Theoretical Remarks on Civil Religion and Civil Society / Walter Rothholz -- The Economic Foundations of Civil Society: Empirical Evidence from New Democracies in the Baltic Sea Region / Claudia-Yvette Matthes -- Civil Codes for a Civil Society: Aspects of Private Law Reform in the Three Baltic Countries / Helmut Heiss -- Limits of Civil Society -- Voluntary Organizations and the Norwegian Welfare State: From Mutual Trust to Contracting? / Magne Eikas, Per Selle -- Private and Public Welfare: Sweden's Child Day-care in Comparative Perspective / Ann-Katrin Hatje -- Ethnic Limits of Civil Society: The Case of Latvia / Artis Pabriks -- Ethnic Limits of Civil Society: The Case of Estonia / Aleksei Semjonov -- The Russian Mafia and Civil Society / Petra Stykow -- Trans-National Cooperation -- University Exchange and Post-modern Transfer of Civicness / Kazimierz Musial.
ISBN
  • 0754633179
  • 9780754633174
LCCN
2003048924
OCLC
  • ocm52054964
  • 52054964
  • SCSB-1310054
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library