The rise of global civil society : building communities and nations from the bottom up / Don Eberly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eberly, Don E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society.

Voluntarism.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people at ""the bottom of the pyramid"" is summoning forth an unprecedented response to human need and suffering. It involves a shift from vertical to horizontal power that official aid agencies are only beginning to comprehend. Whereas twenty-five years ago, government aid accounted for 70 percent of

Contents:

Forward poverty reduction in the age of globalization

Civil society : America's most consequential export

The common elements of community building and nation building:

The American domestic policy debate

The great foreign aid debate : America, generous or stingy?

From aid bureaucracy to civil society

Toward participation and partnerships

Wealth, poverty, and the rise of corporate citizenship

Micro-enterprise : tapping native capability at the bottom of the pyramid

America's most generous gift : the great tsunami of 2005

Conflict or collaboration : religion and civil society

Understanding and confronting anti-americanism

Civil society and nation building : prospects for democratization

Conflict and reconciliation in the context of nation building

Habits of the heart : building civic community

Looking ahead : a roadmap for building communities and nations through indigenous civil society, markets, and rule of law

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48778-7

9786612487781

1-59403-294-7

OCLC:

609854063