CIVIL SOCIETY
IN THE AGE OF
MONITORY DEMOCRACY
REVIEWS
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm
Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm
“This is an ambitious effort to capture and contextualize highly diverse broad-ranging trends of contemporary and emerging civil society worldwide and to open a debate on how to theorize these trends. It provides a set of conceptual and theoretical inroads as well as a variety of empirical cases on state–civil society relations and is a welcomed contribution to the field of civil society studies and democratization studies.”
Sabine Selchow
London School of Economics
London School of Economics
“[A]collection of original and sophisticated chapters. The combination of theoretical and empirical chapters – addressing and debating political activism (understood here through the concept of ‘civil society’) and the state and nature of contemporary democracy in various different contexts – is convincing and makes the collection an attractive and valuable contribution to our understanding of contemporary political dynamics.”