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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 23, 2008
Community Development Journal 2008 43(4):511-515; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn031
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Governance and Civil Society in the European Union; vol. 1: Normative Perspectives Governance and Civil Society in the European Union; vol. 2: Exploring Policy Issues

Walter Lorenz

Free University of Bozen/Bolzano

email: wlorenz@unibz.it

C. Ruzza and V. Della Sala (eds), Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2007, 176 pp, ISBN 9780719075063, £55.00.
C. Ruzza and V. Della Sala (eds), Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2007, 192 pp, ISBN 9780719074950, £55.00.

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This comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the major indicators of an emergent European civil society and the concomitant issues of governance in Europe is a timely contribution to the debate on the European Reform Treaty (ERT). In the wake of the failed EU Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE), the Italian Editors, whose University of Trento has distinguished itself internationally in research on civil society, have managed to bring together key contributors from Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway and the UK – the lack of French and particularly of Eastern European perspectives is regrettable – many of whom have pioneered the discourse on civil society in Europe. They analyse here the implications of profound changes in governance in the case of Europe as paradigmatic for global transformations. After enlargement and under the impact of globalization questions which accompanied the birth of the European nation states need to be addressed all . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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