Manufacturing civil society principles, practices and effects / [electronic resource] :
edited by Taco Brandsen, Willem Trommel, Bram Verschuere.
- 240 p. online resource.
- IIAS Series: Governance and Public Management .
- IIAS Series: Governance and Public Management .
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.