Subject: [CivilSoc] Book--Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 00:26:55 EST
New Book from the Carnegie Endowment
Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion
Edited by Marina Ottaway and Thomas Carothers
"A collection that is filled with valuable information and
penetrating insights. Ottaway and Carothers do a splendid job of
giving an important overview of assistance for civil society and
efforts to promote democracy."
Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
In the past ten years, promoting civil society has become a major
focus in the world of democracy building. Civil society enjoys a
"halo effect," as aid organizations assume that it is an inherently
virtuous actor in democratic transitions.
In Funding Virtue, leading democracy experts Marina Ottaway and Thomas
Carothers have assembled a distinguished group of analysts from around
the world and asked them to examine the myths and methods of the
burgeoning field of civil society aid. The result is a penetrating
analysis rich with practical insights about civil society promotion,
with case studies from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe,
and Latin America.
Funding Virtue finds that aid organizations operate from an
artificially narrow conception of civil society--focused on
Western-style advocacy NGOs--at the expense of other organizational
forms. The book also highlights the inevitably political nature of
civil society work, in contradiction to donors' frequent claims that
civil society promotion is naturally nonpartisan. This provocative
study is certain to prompt international aid donors and policy makers
to rethink civil society aid.
Marina Ottaway, a leading scholar of African politics and senior
associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written
extensively on political change and international aid in developing
countries, including her book, Africa’s New Leaders: Democracy or State
Reconstruction?
Thomas Carothers, the most widely cited expert in the United States on
democracy promotion, and vice president for studies at the Endowment,
has published several books on democracy aid, including Aiding Democracy
Abroad: The Learning Curve.
Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion
Marina Ottaway and Thomas Carothers, editors
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
November 2000/339 pages
$21.95/paperback: 0-87003-178-3; $44.00/hardcover: 0-87003-181-3
To order please call: 1-800-275-1447 or 202-797-6258
or
visit www.ceip.org/publications.
Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Burgeoning World of Civil Society Aid
THOMAS CAROTHERS AND MARINA OTTAWAY
PART ONE: MIDDLE EAST
1. Weak Democracy and Civil Society Promotion: The Cases of Egypt and
Palestine
IMCO BROUWER
2. A Clash of Values: U.S. Civil Society Aid and Islam in Egypt
MUSTAPHA KAMEL AL-SAYYID
PART TWO: AFRICA
3. Social Movements, Professionalization of Reform, and Democracy in
Africa
MARINA OTTAWAY
4. Voicing the Voiceless: Foreign Political Aid to Civil Society in
South Africa
CHRISTOPHER LANDSBERG
PART THREE: ASIA
5. Democracy as Development: A Case for Civil Society Assistance in Asia
STEPHEN J. GOLUB
6. New Visions and Strong Actions: Civil Society in the Philippines
MARY RACELIS
PART FOUR: EASTERN EUROPE
7. Lofty Goals, Modest Results: Assisting Civil Society in Eastern
Europe
KEVIN F. F. QUIGLEY
8. Civil Society in Romania: From Donor Supply to Citizen Demand
DAN PETRESCU
PART FIVE: LATIN AMERICA
9. Latin American Democratization: The Civil Society Puzzle
MICHAEL SHIFTER
10. Civil Society Aid in Peru: Reflections from Experience
CARLOS BASOMBRÍO
PART SIX: CONCLUSION
11. Toward Civil Society Realism
MARINA OTTAWAY AND THOMAS CAROTHERS
Bibliography
Index
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