Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy (Hardcover)

Since the emergence of the dissident OC parallel polisOCO in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a OC new superpower, OCO influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health, and the OC good life.OCO This volume seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and the quickly expanding East in the context of the twenty-first centuryOCOs challenges. It presents a novel perspective on civic movements testing John KeaneOCOs notion of OC monitory democracyOCO: an emerging order of public scrutiny and monitoring of power."