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The politics of civil society building : European private aid agencies and democratic transitions in Central America / Kees Biekart.
- Title
- The politics of civil society building : European private aid agencies and democratic transitions in Central America / Kees Biekart.
- Author
- Biekart, Kees.
- Publication
- Utrecht : International Books ; Amsterdam : Transnational Institute, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Transnational Institute
- Description
- 416 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Strengthening civil society may be all the rage in the international donor community, but what does it mean in practice? This seminal work critically examines the political aspects of civil society building and the role of non-governmental development aid agencies during recent democratic transitions in Central America.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- map.
- bibliographie.
- carte géographique.
- bibliografía.
- mapa.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-396) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Mixing poverty and democracy -- Between compassion and survival -- Learning from failure -- The absence of a third option -- A tacit consensus -- Four aid chains in Central America -- The paradox of private foreign aid.
- ISBN
- 9057270250 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^99514789^
- OCLC
- 40684402
- SCSB-11205504
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library