Second, the engagement process can over-politicize civil society. This would turn civil society into a political organization, depleting the vitality of civil society. Both are dangerous to civil society and even to government itself. One of civil society s tasks is to defend culture and society. Without an active civil society, government begins its slow drift towards totalitarianism.
Power is the steering mechanism of the state.
Without civil society, there is no check to this power . Social Threefolding Appropriate Interaction of Civil Society, State and Market Philippine civil society has advanced a social innovation that can respond both to the opportunities and threats of civil society-government relations. We call this approach social threefolding. Social threefolding involves the coming together, either in dialogue or in partnership, of business, government, and civil society towards the pursuit of a common agenda. In social threefolding, a cultural institution, like a civil society organization, does not have to transform itself into a political institution to attain results in the political sphere.