RUSSIAN STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN INTERACTION: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH
Interaction between civil society organizations and the state in Russia is analyzed on the basis of fieldwork in the Sortavala district in Karelia. The liberal and statist models wrongly assume that civil society and the state are distinct and opposing entities this study shows that in practice they...
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ftcyberleninka:oai:cyberleninka.ru:article/13923679 2023-05-15T17:01:02+02:00 RUSSIAN STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN INTERACTION: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH Kulmala, Meri 2011 text/html http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/russian-state-and-civil-society-in-interaction-an-ethnographic-approach http://cyberleninka.ru/article_covers/13923679.png unknown Автономная некоммерческая организация «Центр независимых социологических исследований» text 2011 ftcyberleninka 2015-10-19T23:56:49Z Interaction between civil society organizations and the state in Russia is analyzed on the basis of fieldwork in the Sortavala district in Karelia. The liberal and statist models wrongly assume that civil society and the state are distinct and opposing entities this study shows that in practice they overlap and intersect. The often-made distinction between policy-advocacy and service-provision organizations is overly reductionist, since one organization can perform both functions. The cases discussed are a Municipal Social Service Center that bundles public and civic efforts an independent child protection organization that actively collaborates with the authorities and a network of women"s organizations that has successfully proposed regional policy initiatives. The article presents a case for studying state-civil society relations in Russia ethnographically and at the local and regional level. Text karelia* CyberLeninka (Scientific Electronic Library) |
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Interaction between civil society organizations and the state in Russia is analyzed on the basis of fieldwork in the Sortavala district in Karelia. The liberal and statist models wrongly assume that civil society and the state are distinct and opposing entities this study shows that in practice they overlap and intersect. The often-made distinction between policy-advocacy and service-provision organizations is overly reductionist, since one organization can perform both functions. The cases discussed are a Municipal Social Service Center that bundles public and civic efforts an independent child protection organization that actively collaborates with the authorities and a network of women"s organizations that has successfully proposed regional policy initiatives. The article presents a case for studying state-civil society relations in Russia ethnographically and at the local and regional level. |
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RUSSIAN STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN INTERACTION: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH |
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RUSSIAN STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN INTERACTION: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH |
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RUSSIAN STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN INTERACTION: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH |
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russian state and civil society in interaction: an ethnographic approach |
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