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| Abstract title: | Lets get civil society straight: NGOs and political theory |
| Author: | Alan Whaites |
| Issue: | Vol 6, Number 3 1996 |
NGOs are using civil society to mean different things: the author argues that the wide definition means that any potential partner organisation becomes a civil-society organisation, and that consideration of the conditions that are central to a community organisation becoming a civil organisation may be useful in helping NGOs focus on the quality of the associations they choose.
This article also appears in the Development in Practice Reader Development, NGOs, and Civil Society.
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