EURO-UA 9530 - European Civil Society

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New York University

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Description:

Explores the unique social space occupied by civil society in Europe and the role of civil society organizations in governance-the process by which governments and nongovernmental groups contend to steer, control, and influence charities, community and faith groups, social movements, trade unions, and nonprofit groups working to benefit the marginalized, socially excluded, and poor. Traces the roots of the concept of civil society over Center for European and Mediterranean Studies two centuries of European political philosophy and analyzes its crucial role in the fundamental changes sweeping contemporary Europe-from the key role of civil society organizations in the democratic transformations of Eastern and Central European states over the past quarter century to their role in the increasingly complex (social, economic, ethnic, national, regional) dynamics of Western Europe and the European Union.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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