The cement of civil society : studying networks in localities
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The cement of civil society : studying networks in localities
(Cambridge studies in contentious politics)
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: hardback362.06||D7101388172
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however, its properties are often reduced to the sum of the traits and attitudes of the individuals or groups that are populating it. This book shows how to move from an 'aggregative' to a relational view of civil society. Drawing upon field work on citizens' organizations in two British cities, this book combines network analysis and social movement theories to show how to represent civil society as a system of relations between multiple actors. 'Modes of coordination' enables us to identify different logics of collective action within the same local settings. The book exposes the weakness of rigid dichotomies, separating the voluntary sector from social movements, 'civic' activism oriented to service delivery from 'un-civic' protest, grassroots activism external to institutions from formal, professionalized organizations integrated within the 'system'.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: of King Solomon, Goethe, and civic networks
- 1. Modes of coordination of collective action
- 2. The importance of local comparisons: civic organizations in British cities
- 3. Building civic networks: strategies of tie formation
- 4. The structural bases of civil society
- 5. Network positions and their incumbents
- 6. The duality of organizations and events
- 7. Network centrality and leadership
- 8. Civic networks and urban governance
- 9. 'Networking' contentious politics
- Postfaction: bringing time and space(s) into the picture.
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