[PDF] Top 20 Civil society, accountability and governance in Thailand: a dim case of participatory democracy

... There was a public outcry against the widespread corruption and abuses of power by politicians under the popularly elected government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan during 1988-9[r] ... See full document

... good governance as our organizational framework, we discovered that PHCs have substantial ...to civil society’s most marginalized groups, which puts into question their accountability and ... See full document

... civil society and on a multi-sector perspective (Moon, 2004, Chen & Delmas, 2011), and is concretely well supported by the remarkable dissemination of experiences of inclusive decision-making processes ... See full document

... just society of civil cosmopolitanism bring a new perspective to ideas surrounding multi-level governance: that is, a peaceful citizens’ ...just society add value, that is to say these two ... See full document

... national democracy, global citizenship assumes an awareness and sense of responsibility to issues and people, including those in different areas of the ...Both democracy and global citizenship are ... See full document

... The real and most important part of the associational life in Japan seem to rest in the organizations that are informal and outside the legal framework. The Neighborhood Associations, (jchijikai and chonaikai) Children ... See full document

... with civil soc iety in democratisation conflicts indeed rests on the notion that contemporary conflicts are increasingly mediatised events (Cottle, ...how civil society groups are viewed within the ... See full document

... global civil society treat CSOs as reasonable proxies for the grassroots interests of the stakeholders they claim to ...r Accountability (1998); Bruce Rich of the Environmental Defense Fund has a ... See full document

... For almost six decades since its emergence as an academic discipline, IR has been oblivious to the sociological problematic of agents and structures. IR theorists have certainly employed these terms in the past, for ... See full document

... Civil Society have played a major role in the development and governance processes of ...of civil society organizations in the country is shifting gradually from defense against ... See full document

... active society, organised civil society groups advocating the rule of law and respect for human rights and freedoms in general seem to be rather reluctant in leading the movement for the ... See full document

... for accountability and informed society can also be the core duty of civil society ...groups. Civil Society groups make immense contribution effective civil rule ... See full document

... and civil society subjects, which acquired more importance in new ordinary settlement and which takes participation as mutual point, are mentioned in this ...and Civil Society Commission” ... See full document

... Democracy, Deeds and Dilemmas is not the first work to consider what the Spanish Republic signified to its British sympathisers. Buchanan has previously argued how popular constructions of a progressive ‘New ... See full document

... The movement for Right to Information can be traced back to the grassroots struggle of the rural poor, who have sought to fight against corruption in their areas affecting their livelihood and justice around them. The ... See full document

... Guatemala, civil society inclusion in peacemaking did not lead to sustainable peace and consolidated ...paradigm, civil society actors ultimately supported western and elite peace agendas ... See full document

... Although these claims have won wide acceptance, the literature contains a number of objections against the notion that democracy and democratization are conducive to armed conflict. First, confounding factors ... See full document

... the civil recourse theory that has been worked out in the writings of John Goldberg and Benjamin ...view, civil recourse theory captures an important truth about the structure of relational or bipo- lar ... See full document

... of civil society – which needs to dislodge the monopoly of power from an unsuccessful leadership to the people who need it the ...most. Civil society mounted pressure in the early 1990s and to ... See full document

... This loss of popular control is at the heart of the issue. As mentioned earlier, concerns about the unitary face of the state and problems of a transparent process are at the core of the exclusion of parliaments. Yet ... See full document