About the Book: Democracy Civil Society and Governance
Civil society is often expected to rise above historical and contemporary
socio-economic forces such as the neoliberal economic policy and undertake the
transformation of a stratified society to an egalitarian society conducive to
democracy. Democracy, Civil society and governance is an endeavour to critically
examine such expectations. The book focuses on the interplay of democracy, Civil
society and public policy implementation, and addresses the role of Civil
society in terms of the changing nature of the economy and the condition of the
working class. It highlights the reinforcement of hegemonic value systems by the
contemporary mainstream Civil society