Introduction to Global Perspectives special collection: The Civic Life of Cities around the
World In a wired world, how do social interactions among organizations and people …

In our project on civic spaces, we make two major assumptions, first, that for the social,
political and economic promises of the rise of civil society to be realized, there must be civic …

Civil society's current engagement in providing and fostering sustainability practices and
services illustrates that civil society's role has expanded beyond advocacy, and that some …

In The Politics of Civic Space in Asia, readers are treated to nuanced, critical, and
comparative analyses of the relationships between civil society and civic space in a variety …

In a rapidly transforming world, America's cities occupy a strategic position in the global web
and play an increasing role in determining the quality of local citizenship. In this book, we …

This chapter is the introduction to the edited volume Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges,
Contexts, honoring the work of Helmut K. Anheier. Following Anheier's broad research …

Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance
of cities in the making of modern citizens. For most of the modern era the nation and not the …

World cities are the main hubs of the global economy and international cultural life. They are
nexus points in the accumulation and circulation of capital, labor, and culture in the capitalist …

This article responds to the question of whether public administrators should work to
encourage citizen identification with community as a way to build social capital. More …

Some commentators take the view that the growth of multi-national companies operating on
a global basis is now so well developed that cities are best viewed as helpless victims in a …