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Civil society

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• Social contract

• Civil society -- China
• Civil society -- Congresses
• Civil society -- Cross-cultural studies
• Civil society -- East Asia
• Civil society -- Europe, Eastern
• Civil society -- Former Soviet republics
• Civil society -- Great Britain
• Civil society -- History
• Civil society -- India
• Civil society -- Jordan
• Civil society -- Philosophy
• Civil society -- Russia (Federation)
• Civil society -- South Africa
• Civil society -- United States
• Islam and civil society

• Civil Society, Conflict and Violence: Insights from the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Project (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Regina List and Wolfgang Dörner (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Civil Society and Social Reconstruction (1997), ed. by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)
• Civil Society in a Chinese Context (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and Manuel B. Dy (multiple formats at Google)
• Peace and Democratic Society (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers and Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011), ed. by Amartya Sen, contrib. by Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google
• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
• The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement (originally published 2006; this edition London and New York: Routledge, 2017), by Marlies Glasius (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Defending Civil Society: Report (second edition; 2012), by World Movement for Democracy, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at movedemocracy.org)
• Freedom, Cultural Traditions, and Progress: Philosophy in Civil Society and Nation Building, by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)

• Civil Society in a Chinese Context (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and Manuel B. Dy (multiple formats at Google)
• Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society With Interactive Authoritarianism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Taiyi Sun
  • multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Project MUSE

• Nations, Identities, Cultures (originally published as special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly; c1995), ed. by V. Y. Mudimbe, contrib. by Martin Bernal, Dominique Colas, Wyatt MacGaffey, Jocelyn Létourneau, Daphna Golan-Agnon, Miriam Cooke, Thomas Lahusen, Anders Linde-Laursen, John McCumber, John McCumber, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, and Kenneth Surin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Civil Society and Social Reconstruction (1997), ed. by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)

• Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), ed. by David Chiavacci, Simona Alba Grano, and Julia Obinger (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Peter Hayes and Kiho Yi (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Nations in Transit, by Freedom House (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Nations in Transit, by Freedom House (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Civil Society and David Blunkett: Lawyers vs Politicians (c2002), by Kenneth R. Minogue (PDF at Civitas)
• Schools of Citizenship: Charity and Civic Virtue (c2002), by F. K. Prochaska (PDF at Civitas)

• The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Christine A. Woyshner (PDF at Ohio State)

• Civil Society in Indian Cultures (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2001), ed. by Asha Mukherjee, Sabujkali Sen, and K. Bagchi (multiple formats at Google)

• Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Christoph Wicke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Human Rights, Solidarity and Subsidiarity: Essays Toward a Social Ontology, by Carlos Eduardo Maldonado (PDF at crvp.org)

• Laws of Attrition: Crackdown on Russia's Civil Society After Putin's Return to the Presidency (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2013), by Yulia Gorbunova and K. A. Baranov (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• Sameness and Difference: Problems and Potentials in South African Civil Society, ed. by James R. Cochrane and Bastienne Klein (PDF at crvp.org)

• Islam, Dialogue and Civil Society, by Muhammad Khatami (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Law and Order (Hamlyn Lectures, #37; London: Stevens and Sons, 1985), by Ralf Dahrendorf (PDF in the UK)
• The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• The Social Contract, and Discourses, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1991), by James M. Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy, by Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Social Compact, Exemplified in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: With Remarks on the Theories of Divine Right of Hobbes and of Filmer, and the Counter Theories of Sidney, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, Concerning the Origin and Nature of Government (Providence: Knowles and Vose, printers, 1842), by John Quincy Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (HTML at Wikisource)
• Famous Utopias: Being the Complete Text of Rousseau's Social Contract, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sun (New York: Tudor Pub. Co., c1901), ed. by Charles McLean Andrews, contrib. by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, and Tommaso Campanella
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)