Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, Civil Society, and Democratization in Bulgaria

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Cellarius ◽  
Caedmon Staddon
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations

Arnoldo Alemán Takes on the NGOs: Antifeminism and the New Populism in Nicaragua

2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Kampwirth
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Foreign Born

This article analyzes the campaign of Nicaraguan president Arnoldo Alemán (1997–2002) against organized competitors, what has been called his war against the nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs. Alemán's attacks on the NGO sector are shown to be consistent with the logic of the new populism in Latin America. At the same time, his choice of targets—prominent NGO figures who were often foreign-born and always female—must be explained with reference to the specifics of Nicaraguan civil society and its evolving relationship with the political parties. This study argues that by choosing to respond to the challenges of international neoliberalism and local feminism through the anti-NGO campaign, Alemán helped to weaken democracy in Nicaragua.

What Is a Religious NGO?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn L. Bush
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
International Variation ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Religious Actors ◽  
Second International

This chapter addresses definitional and classificatory problems that emerge in collecting data on transnational religious NGOs (nongovernmental organizations). It shows how the parameters used to define “religious NGOs” are not only of practical, methodological importance but also speak to underlying theoretical concerns about the boundaries between the religious and the secular, and between government and civil society. Of particular significance are, first, organizational variation in the relationships to religious institutions proper and, second, international variation in religion-state relations. Taken together, these variations make it difficult to determine whether particular religious actors are best conceived as NGOs, religious organizations proper, or extensions of government. These variations can also compromise the reliability of data used for international and interreligious comparisons of “religious NGOs.”

تيران‎_وصنافير‎_مصرية‎ “Tiran and Sanafir are Egyptian!”

2019 ◽  
pp. 193-234
Author(s):  
Amy Austin Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Media ◽  
Second Wave

The second wave of the counterrevolution is covered in chapter 7. With the election of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as president, the level and form of state repression changed again. During the second wave of the counterrevolution, the regime turned against civil society at large, including both groups that played no role in mobilizing for street protests and those who had supported the coup or the first wave of the crackdown. The objective was to silence independent civil society: nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), charities, the media, universities, researchers, and minority groups including the LGBTQ community and the Nubian minority. An NGO law criminalized normal NGO activity, including the work of those organizations that were engaging in apolitical work that supported Egypt’s development goals. As a rule, security forces took action before legislation was issued to justify the action.

Journalism as an Advocacy Tool: Negotiating Boundaries of Professionalism in the 20th-Century American Environmental Movement

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 1080-1100
Author(s):  
Suzannah Evans Comfort
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Audubon Society ◽  
Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
The 1960S

Environmental nongovernmental organizations faced unprecedented opportunities after public interest in environmental issues exploded in the 1960s. Drawing on the official archives of the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, and the National Audubon Society, this study demonstrates how these organizations redeveloped their publications to take advantage of newfound public interest and political opportunities in the 1960s through the 1980s. The organizations adopted professional journalistic norms and practices in their publications to court mass appeal and gain political legitimacy, but their journalistic endeavors were hampered by internal disagreements over the use of journalism as an advocacy tool.

Human Rights, Civil Society and Nongovernmental Organizations: The Nexus in Bangladesh

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1011-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habib Mohammad Zafarullah ◽  
Md. Habibur (Mohammad Habibur) Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations
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