{"id":908,"date":"2006-12-31T16:22:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/?p=908"},"modified":"2016-08-17T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T20:27:20","slug":"ngos-and-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/2006\/2006\/ngos-and-civil-society\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs and civil society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>| By A Bebbington and S. Hickey | \u00a0Published in\u00a0<em>The Elgar Companion to Development Studies,\u00a0<\/em>pp. 417-423. Edited by D.A. Clark. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. |<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>| <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/08\/Chapter-2006-NGOs-and-Civil-Society.pdf\">Full text<\/a> (PDF) |<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Civil society has been termed \u2018a notoriously slippery concept\u2019 by more than one commentator (Bebbington and Riddell, 1995, p. 880; Edwards, 2004, p. vi), while the struggle to define the notion of nongovernmental organisations remains unfinished. Despite this, donor agencies across the spectrum have tended to hinge their \u2018civil society strengthening\u2019 programmes around capacity building support to NGOs. An important implication is that \u2013 if the meanings of both NGO and civil society are multiple and unclear \u2013 \u2018civil society strengthening\u2019 programmes implemented via NGOs are not all a cut of the same cloth. While some may aim to foster a broader and more inclusive public sphere for the exercise of democratic politics, others may be promoting a very particular form of liberal democracy coupled with particular forms of market liberalisation. Civil society and NGO are not then merely slippery concepts \u2013 they are deeply contested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| By A Bebbington and S. Hickey | \u00a0Published in\u00a0The Elgar Companion to Development Studies,\u00a0pp. 417-423. Edited by D.A. Clark. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. | | Full text (PDF) | Summary: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1324,35094],"tags":[34882,34812],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1324","category-book-chapters-and-other-journal-articles","tag-civil-society","tag-ngos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}