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Record Nr.

UNINA9910488705303321

Autore

Kutay Acar

Titolo

NGOs, civil society and structural changes / / Acar Kutay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-71862-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages)

Disciplina

341.2

Soggetti

Social contract

Non-governmental organizations - Political aspects

Civilization, Modern - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Logical Steps of Argumentation -- Problems -- Interpretive Encounters -- Contribution -- References -- 2 Interpreting Civil Society -- Interpretive Theory -- Decentering a Reified Conception of Civil Society -- Governmentality and Political Science -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Interpreting with Foucault -- Foucault, Discourse and Power -- Foucault and Institution -- Foucault and Political Rationalities -- Modernist Theories and Civil Society -- Neoliberal Rationalities and Society -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Defining and Constituting NGOs -- Speech Acts -- Performativity -- Interpellation -- Situated Agency -- Power Relations -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Civil Society, NGOs, and Governance -- Theories and Practices of Governance -- Rational Choice and New Institutionalism -- Differentiated Systems: New Institutional Approach -- Criticisms -- Neoliberal Reforms and Civil Society -- Beyond the Instrumental and Functional Criticism -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Governing Through Civil Society -- Governmentality -- Political Rationalities -- Governmentality and Civil Society -- Circulation of Managerial Technologies -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Management, Managerialism, and NGOs -- Management, Managerialism, and NGOs -- Coupling Among the State, the Market,



and Civil Society -- Managerialism as a Mediating System for Coupling -- Professionalized Communication -- Panoptic Surveillance -- What Does New Governance and Managerialism Do to Civil Society? -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 8 Global Governance, Public Sphere, and CSOs -- New Governance and Civil Society -- Political Theory and Civil Society -- In the Shadow of Habermas -- Reconsidering the Public Sphere Beyond Habermas -- Beyond Deliberative Theory -- A Historical Approach and Common Good -- Concluding Remarks.

References -- 9 Civil Society in European Governance: A Case Study -- European Civil Society -- From Dialogue to Legal Norm-the History of Civil Society Participation in EU Policymaking -- Civil Society and Representation of Interests: Interests, Discourses, or Lived Experiences? -- Delegate Model and Interest Aggregation -- Discursive Model and Tracking of the Public Deliberations -- Functional Model and Representing the Lived Experiences -- Reflecting on the Limits of Civil Society Participation in European Governance -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 10 Conclusion -- Index.