Hello everybody:
I hope everybody had a wonderful 4th of July. As we celebrate the ideals of
democracy, we are witnessing democracy recession across several countries. Many
governments are cracking down on civil society, ostensibly pushing back against
foreign meddling in their domestic affairs. In part, this is due to the inflow
of western funds to create civil society abroad. This raises important issues
whether this foreign-funded model corresponds with the intellectual rationale
for a vibrant, endogenous and locally-rooted civic sector as outlined by
Tocqueville, Coleman, Putnam, Ostrom, and others. Here is a piece we published
today in Washington Post's Monkey Cage on the global crackdown on civil
society.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/07/05/__trashed-4/?utm_term=.29434d4110a4#comments
Aseem
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Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3530
http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/
http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/
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