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‘Lost in Transformation’: The Crisis of Democracy and Civil Society

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Global Civil Society 2012

Part of the book series: Global Civil Society Yearbook ((GCSY))

Abstract

In turbulent times often repeated clichés and conventional wisdoms easily become outdated and quickly forgotten. This has happened to the ‘end of history’ thesis, popular in the early 1990s. Today we not only know that history is not over, but that we are rather seriously challenged by the rapid and constant changes produced by the new course of history in the post-1989 world.

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  1. Ferenc Miszlivetz
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Mary Kaldor (Professor of Global Governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development) (Professor of Global Governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development)

  2. University of Cambridge, UK

    Henrietta L. Moore (William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology) (William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology)

  3. Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE), UK

    Sabine Selchow (Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development) (Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development)

  4. Methodology Institute at LSE, UK

    Sabine Selchow (Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development) (Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development)

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Miszlivetz, F. (2012). ‘Lost in Transformation’: The Crisis of Democracy and Civil Society. In: Kaldor, M., Moore, H.L., Selchow, S., Murray-Leach, T. (eds) Global Civil Society 2012. Global Civil Society Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369436_4

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