NGOs, civil society and democratization: a critical review of the literature

By C. Mercer. 2002

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Subfields: Development

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Citations in the corpus

• The privatization of public interest: theorizing NGO discourse in a neoliberal era (2004, background): “Pulled apart in their meanings, we must conclude that an active civil society based on liberalism does not equal a democratic civil society, although the two meanings are often conflated in NGO analysis (Mercer, 2002).”
• Globalisation, accounting and developing countries (2017, background): “spectrum of civil interest groups (Mercer, 2002) and they have succeeded in gaining access to policy makers and getting their ideas implemented through activism, campaigning and policy dialogue (Clarke, 1998).”