Keep it Civil!
Civil society improves development by increasing ____ in governance.
What is accountability?
What is influence?
What is policy?
This term describes networks of relationships and shared norms that help society function.
What is social capital?
A ____ refers to voluntary groups who exist between the state and the market.
What is a Civil Society?
"A sphere apart from the state. It is a sphere in which individuals come together and form groups, pursue common enterprises, share interests, communicate over important and sometimes not so important matters."
What is a Civil Society?
This country has 40 Civil Society groups coming together and calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for an urgent special session on their current situation.
What is Iran?
Schools and universities, advocacy groups, professional associations, churches, and cultural institutions, and sometimes businesses are alll this.
What is a Civil Society group?
This type of social capital connects people across social, racial, or economic divides.
What is bridging social capital?
This term describes the networks, norms, and trust that enable cooperation in society.
What is Social Capital
Understood to be along legal, conceptual, or sociological lines, a Civil Society establishes this characteristic to separate itself from the State.
What are Boundaries?
According to the Pew and GSS data, this percentage of Americans say “most people can be trusted,” a figure unchanged since 2018.
What is about 34%?
In fragile or conflict-affected countries, civil society often steps in to perform these functions normally handled by the state.
What are basic public services?
Within the United States, Social Capital is considered to be doing this in terms of having: trust in others, in strong relationships, and in community ties.
What is Declining Social Capital?
This term depends on how families raise their children, how schools educate them, and how local institutions work to build a sense of community.
What are Prosocial Norms?
To Chambers & Kopstein, there are 6 relations between a civil society and the State.
What are
1. civil society apart from the state;
2. civil society against the state;
3. civil society in support of the state;
4. civil society in dialogue with the state;
5. civil society in partnership with the state;
6. civil society beyond the state.
Despite declining generalized trust, Abrams’ Rethinking Trust Article explains how Americans still engage in this type of behavior, such as helping neighbors or donating, which challenges the idea that trust alone sustains civil society.
What is prosocial or communal behavior?
This global crisis (Ingram) highlighted both the essential role of civil society organizations and the strains they face, such as supply shortages and social distancing.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
Sawhill argues this actor can intentionally help rebuild social capital.
What is government?
For civil society to support democracy, it must remain independent from this actor.
What is the State?
Chambers and Kopstein refer to a Civil Society as this term to explain its Nonpolitical and state-separate agenda when it “interacts with and indeed opposes the state.”
What is an “Agent”?
In South Africa, this government-backed fund partners with civil society to address unemployment and rebuild trust in communities.
What is the Social Employment Fund (SEF)?
In developing their modernizing strategy, USAID had been advised to identify various roles played by a civil society with these 4 basic principles, helping to guide USAID’s engagement with civil society.
What are: 1) Engaging with diversity orgs in setting priorities. 2) Protect the enabling environment. 3) Invest in its capabilities. 4) Engage with a broad range.
In his book, Bowling Alone, Putnam argued that social capital in the U.S. was declining due to various kinds of associations including some of these examples.
What are unions, churches, voter turnout, political engagement, trust in government, and volunteering?
Bonding Social Capital is to people who are like you; Whereas ___ Social Capital is to people who are unlike you.
What is Bridging social capital
This typology of Civil Society is used to characterize 'Accountability," – Plural voices raised in this view of the state-society relationship’s _____ allows CivSoc Groups to share their ideas, interests, values, and ideologies.
What is dialogue?
This issue is a current concern within South Africa, where communities are heavily relying on grassroot orgs and government assistance to mend social capital.
What is Unemployment in South Africa?