European Union Civil Society Policy and Turkey [electronic resource] : A Bridge Too Far? /
Zihnioglu, O.author.
Drawing on interviews with Civil Society organizations and in conjunction with an examination of EU Civil Society Policy and the legal and institutional environment in Turkey this book examines EU policies on Turkish Civil Society organizations and highlights the significant constraints and limited impacts of these policies.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables, Figures and Maps""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction: Civil Society and the EU Approach""; ""The case of Turkey""; ""EU approach to civil society""; ""Methods of analysis""; ""Organization of the book""; ""2 Establishing the Conceptual Framework""; ""Emergence of the concept of civil society""; ""Civic-liberal tradition""; ""Neo-Tocquevillians""; ""The impact on EU civil society policy""; ""3 Understanding EU Civil Society Policy in Turkey""; ""EU civil society policy and European integration""
""Eastern enlargement and its impact""""EU civil society policy in the Turkish context""; ""Instruments of EU civil society policy in Turkey""; ""4 The Impact of EU Civil Society Policy in Turkey""; ""Thematic field analyses""; ""Transformation of the legal and institutional environment""; ""5 What Goes Wrong? â€? I""; ""Challenging the EU's conceptualization of civil society""; ""A different perspective on civil society""; ""The implications for the EU accession process""; ""The role of the immediate environment""; ""6 What Goes Wrong? â€? II""
""An overview of the first decades of the Turkish Republic (1923â€?1945)""""Multi-party period (1946â€?1960)""; ""Years of turbulence (1961â€?1980)""; ""The post-1980 period (1981â€?1999)""; ""The EU accession period (2000â€?2012)""; ""The impact of historical baggage on contemporary civil society""; ""7 Conclusion""; ""Summary of research findings""; ""Arguments and discussion""; ""The way forward""; ""Appendices""; ""A.1 List of civil society organization interviews""; ""A.2 Number of associations in Turkey (1980â€?2011)""; ""A.3 Number of foundations in Turkey (1980â€?2012)""
""A.4 Number of associations according to their types (1998â€?2011)""""A.5 Provincial breakdown of the number of active associations in Turkey""; ""A.6 List of legislative reforms on freedom of association and freedom of assembly in Turkey since 1999""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""List of Personal Interviews""; ""Glossary""; ""Index""
Drawing on interviews with Civil Society organizations and in conjunction with an examination of EU Civil Society Policy and the legal and institutional environment in Turkey this book examines EU policies on Turkish Civil Society organizations and highlights the significant constraints and limited impacts of these policies.
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Political sociology.
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