Volume 6, Number 3

• Editorial
  • Editorial 6(3)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • `Dancing with the prince': NGOs' survival strategies in the Afghan conflict
    Goodhand, Jonathan; Chamberlain, Peter
  • Handing over an operational project to community management in North Darfur, Sudan
    Strachan, Peter
  • Institutional development in practice: a case-study from the Tibetan refugee community
    Fisher, Thomas; Mahajan, Vijay; Topgyal Tsering
  • New communication technologies in tropical African development
    Domatob, Jerry Komia; Ausmus, William A.; Butler, John M.
• Viewpoint
  • Let's get civil society straight: NGOs and political theory
    Whaites, Alan
  • NGOs, the poor, and local government
    Collier, Christopher
• Practical Notes
  • Brazilian NGOs: from grassroots to national civic leadership
    Garrison, John W.
  • An NGO scales up in Gujerat
    Allsebrook, Annie
  • Pit latrines and participation: the MAPET Project in Dar es Salaam
    Muller, Maria; Rijnsburger, Jaap
• Conference Report
  • NGOs, civil society and the State: building democracy in transitional countries
    Roche, Chris
• Research Roundup
  • NGOs and the State: a case-study from Uganda
    Cannon, Christy
  • Getting down to ground level: a community perspective on social development
    Dey, Krishno; Westendorff, David
• Book Reviews

Let's get civil society straight: NGOs and political theory

Whaites, Alan

NGOs are using `civil society' to mean different things: the author argues that the wide definition means that any potential partner organisation becomes a civil-society organisation, and that consideration of the conditions that are central to a community organisation becoming a civil organisation may be useful in helping NGOs focus on the quality of the associations they choose.

This article is freely available as a chapter in Development NGOs and Civil Society.

Keywords: Civil society

   

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