Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds

Liv Egholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.Lars Bo Kaspersen is Professor in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is the co-editor of Does War Make States? Investigations of Charles Tilly's Historical Sociology and the author of Anthony Giddens: An Introduction to a Social Theorist.

• Part 1: Setting the Scene; 1. A Processual-relational Approach to Civil Society; 2. The Modern Conceptual History of Civil Society; 3. The "Long History" of Civil Society in Denmark and Western Europe: Civil Society – In the Shadow of the State (Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century); 4. Different States, Different Shadows: The Particular Exceptionalism of Civil Society in the United States; Part 2: The Emergence of the Danish Civil Society; 5. Civil Society and the Civilizing Mission; 6. Christianity, State, and Voluntarism: Protestant Processes of Privatization and Deprivatization; 7. Philanthropy as the Co-creator of the Welfare State; 8. Past and Present Futures of Democracy: The Danish Peasants’ Movement as Democracy Instigator and Cultural Mythologizer; 9. Eclipsed by the Welfare State: Understanding the Rise and Decline of the Danish Workers’ Cooperation, 1871–2000; 10. Civil Society in the Shadow of the Danish Welfare State; 11. Civic Action as Temporal Process-in-Relations: Towards an Events-Based Approach; Part 3: Epilogue; 12. Civil Society as Process and Valuation

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