The Politics of Civil Society : : Big Society and Small Government / / Fred Powell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Powell, Fred,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Doublethink: the ‘Big Society, Small Government’ debate --; The renaissance of civil society --; Modernity, civil society and civic virtue --; Radical civil society, early social movements and the socialisation of the state --; Nietzsche’s revenge: totalitarian big society --; Rights talk, new social movements and civic revolts --; American exceptionalism, multicultural civil society and Plato’s noble lie --; Global civil society: myth or reality? --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781447307167; 9783111196213
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Fred Powell.

2011 shook the world politically. The Occupy Movement, Los Indignados and the Greek Aganaktismenoi (outraged) reacted to zombie capitalism in the West, while the Arab Spring challenged political tyrannies in the Maghreb-Mashreq region.Democracy became the meta-question of the moment. New communicative technologies unleashed a tidal wave of civic protest that spread across the globe, bringing new political actors on to the street. But what does this protest movement mean? Are we on the threshold of a transformation in global political consciousness? Is civil society the necessary counter-power that is democratising democracy from within? Or are we living through an apocalyptic terminal phase of civilisation? In the second, revised edition of this indispensable book, the author looks behind the mirror of power and differentiates the real from the fake in policy and politics. It offers an original and compelling history of the present and will have wide appeal to a broad cross-disciplinary audience.