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Civil Society in Europe - JSM437
Anglický název: Civil Society in Europe
Zajišťuje: Katedra veřejné a sociální politiky (23-KVSP)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2015 do 2018
Semestr: letní
E-Kredity: 8
Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: 30 / neurčen (20)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
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Garant: doc. PhDr. Pavol Frič, Ph.D.
Vyučující: doc. PhDr. Pavol Frič, Ph.D.
Třída: Courses not for incoming students
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Anotace -
Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Pavol Frič, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)
ollowing the fall of Communism in 1989 the civil sectors in CEE countries were re-established after the several decades of communist totality. The most obvious evidence of that is the rapid growth in the number of civil society organizations (CSOs) during the last decade of 20 century. In spite of this impressive growth, the size and society position of civil sectors in CEE countries remains relatively limited. The re-birth and consolidation of the position of civil sector in the postcommunist countries in Central Europe would not have been possible without substantial assistance from the official authorities, or the state. This course will emphasise the attitudes of the governmental political representations to strengthening the role of civil sector in society and to consolidation attempts of CSOs inside the sector changed in confrontation with regular problems of governing during the last fifteen years. In discussing giving and volunteering in CEE countries, it is important to view it against the background of its history with communism in order to gain a better understanding of where this phenomenon are today. Therefore the course focuses its attention also on the special kind of ideologized philanthropy the so called "proletarian altruism" organized by communist regimes. The lecture also offers the review of the main parameters of the phenomena in the CEE countries: size of giving and volunteering on individual and corporate level, dynamics of giving and volunteering in the region, giving and volunteering motivation structure, giving strategies of private corporations, population attitudes to giving and volunteering
Cíl předmětu -
Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Pavol Frič, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

AIMS:

The main aim of the course is to give students a critical understanding of the role of civil society and civil sector in the process of transformation and modernization in Central Europe after Velvet Revolutions. Following the fall of Communism in 1989 the civil sectors in CEE countries were re-established after the several decades of communist totality. The most obvious evidence of that is the rapid growth in the number of civil society organizations (CSOs) during the last decade of 20 century. In spite of this impressive growth, the size and position of civil sectors in CE countries remains relatively limited. The lecture gives answers on the questions what are the origins of CSOs proliferation and why is the process of civil sector consolidation so difficult? What was the role of outside (western) assistance in the sector consolidation? What effects of Path Dependence have decisive impact on the shape of the sector internal structure and on the consolidation processes as such? What are the anomalies in civil sectors development in CEE countries in comparison with their western counterparts? What are the main achievements of the civil sector consolidation and what are the main failures? What are the crucial problems of the forming the civil sectors as a real societal actors? As theoretical background for identification and explanation of the mentioned factors, effects and problems will be used set of economic, sociological and politological theories (Theory of the (Market / State) Failure, Theory of Confidence, Welfare State Theory, The Resource Mobilization Theory, The Theory of Political Opportunity Structure, The Collective Identity Theory…)

Literatura -
Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Pavol Frič, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

COMPULSORY TEXTS:

 

  1. Introduction

Salamon, Lester M.  and Helmut K. Anheier 1992. In search of the non-profit sector. I: The question of definitions. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 125-151.

  1. Civil Society and CSOs as Schools of Democracy

Dodge, Jennifer and Sonia, M. Ospina. 2015. Nonprofits as “Schools of Democracy”: A Comparative Case Study of Two Environmental Organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 1–22

  1. Historical Roots of CSOs in CE Countries

Skovajsa, Marek. 2008.  Independent and Broader Civil Society in East-Central European Democratizations. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Volume 4, No.2: 47-73

  1. Consolidation of Civil Sector in CE Countries after 1989

Kuti, Eva. 1999. Different Eastern European countries at different crossroads. In: VOLUNTAS, Vol. 10, No. 1.

  1. Power Elite and Civil Society (CSOs) Relations

Dvořáková, Vladislava. 2003. Civil Society in the Czech Republic: “Impulse 99” and “Thank You, Time To Go”. In: Kopecký P. and Mudde C. eds. Uncivil Society?: ontentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe.       London: Routledge.

  1. Public Policy and Civil Sector in the CE Countries

Piotrowski, Grzegorz. 2020. Civil Society in Illiberal Democracy: The Case of Poland. Czech journal of political science / politologický časopis. Vol. 2, pp. 196-214. 

  1. CSOs´ Professionalization and Marketization

Fagan, Adam. 2005. Taking Stock of Civil-Society Development in Post-communist Europe: Evidence from the Czech Republic. Democratization, Vol.12, No.4, pp.528–547. DOI: 10.1080=13510340500226077

  1. Civil Engagement in the CE Countries after 1989

Tarrow, Sidney-Tsveta Petrova. 2006. Transactional and Participatory Activism in the Emerging European Polity: The Puzzle of East-Central Europe. Comparative Political Studies, Volume 20, Number 10, pp. 1-21.

  1. Philanthropy in CE Countries

Schuyt, Theo, Jan Smit, Rene Bekkers. 2010. Constructing a Philanthropy-scale: Social Responsibility and Philanthropy. Social Work & Society, Volume 8, Issue 1.

  1. Volunteering in CE Countries

Hustinx, L., Cnaan, R.A., Handy, F. 2010. The Navigating Theories of Volunteering: The hybrid map for a komplex phenomenon. Journal of the               Theory of Social Behaviour, 40 (4), 410-434.

  1. Anti-Civil Society and CSOs

Zakaria Patty. 2012. Is Corruption an Enemy of Civil Society? The case of Central and Eastern Europe. International Political Science Review 0(0) 1–21. DOI: 10.1177/0192512112466880

12. Un-civil society, populism and CSOs

Slačálek, Ondřej – Eva Svobodová. 2017. Professionalised “civil society” vs. grassroots “uncivil society”? The “Little Czech” 20 years later. Socio.hu, Special issue, pp. 23-52. DOI: 10.18030/socio.hu.2017en.23

13. Future of CS in the perspective of demokratization/de-democratization

Salamon, Lester M. The Resilient Sector: The Future of Nonprofit America.

 

 

Sylabus -
Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Pavol Frič, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

SYLLABUS

 

JSM437, JSM044, Civil Society in Central Europe

 

 

AIMS:

The main aim of the course is to give students a critical understanding of the role of civil society and civil sector in the process of transformation and modernization in Central Europe after Velvet Revolutions. Following the fall of Communism in 1989 the civil sectors in CEE countries were re-established after the several decades of communist totality. The most obvious evidence of that is the rapid growth in the number of civil society organizations (CSOs) during the last decade of 20 century. In spite of this impressive growth, the size and position of civil sectors in CE countries remains relatively limited. The lecture gives answers on the questions what are the origins of CSOs proliferation and why is the process of civil sector consolidation so difficult? What was the role of outside (western) assistance in the sector consolidation? What effects of Path Dependence have decisive impact on the shape of the sector internal structure and on the consolidation processes as such? What are the anomalies in civil sectors development in CEE countries in comparison with their western counterparts? What are the main achievements of the civil sector consolidation and what are the main failures? What are the crucial problems of the forming the civil sectors as a real societal actors? As theoretical background for identification and explanation of the mentioned factors, effects and problems will be used set of economic, sociological and politological theories (Theory of the (Market / State) Failure, Theory of Confidence, Welfare State Theory, The Resource Mobilization Theory, The Theory of Political Opportunity Structure, The Collective Identity Theory…)

 

COURSE STRUCTURE

  1. Introduction

CS definition, theoretical approaches, organized CS – CS civil sector, three society life sectors, terminology, legal CSOs forms, CSOs functions in society, CS structure and segmentation.

  1. Civil Society and CSOs as Schools of Democracy

Political role of CSOs in society, Theory of interest groups, Theory of democratic culture, power sandwich - demoelitism, CSOs as a space for socialization of citizens for political participation, the EU and the role of civic organizations in filling the democratic deficit, participatory engineering.

  1. Historical Roots of CSOs in CE Countries

The main historical periods os CS development, CSOs and political régime discontinuity, communist darkness, patterns of CS under communism, fall of communism, rebirth of CS after 1989.

  1. Consolidation of Civil Sector in CE Countries after 1989

Increase in the number of civic organizations, formation of the civil sector community, professionalization as a source of successes and problems of civil organizations, projectification.

  1. Power Elite and Civil Society (CSOs) Relations

Process of democracy consolidation, Civil society ideology, building the system of political parties, forming style of governing, contradictory visions of CS development - Václav Havel vs. Václav Klaus, Theories of State–CS relations.

  1. Public Policy and Civil Sector in the CE Countries

Impact of public policy on the organized civil society, dilemmas of decision-making agenda, inconsistence of Public Policy, lack of political will to solve problems of CSOs, intersectoral partnership models, consequences of CSOs policy involvement – institutional embeddedness, domestication, depolitization.

  1. Professionalization and Marketization of CSOs

Modernization, individualization, CSOs´ failure as schools of democracy, transactional activism, ideology of professionalism = threat of loss of CSOs´sectoral identity, decrease in the attractiveness of civic organizations in Czech society (membership, public trust …), civic or democratic professionalism.

  1. Civil Engagement in the CE Countries after 1989

Types of citizens´ participation, collective and individualized activism, economic (financial) civic participation, weak civil engagement in CE countries and its causes, declining membership in CSOs.

  1. Philanthropy in CE Countries

Philanthropy and proletarian altruism during communist era, communism as pure altruistic society, philanthropy consolidation after 1989, managerial and mission perspective on giving, CSOs and individual giving.

  1. Volunteering in CE Countries

Three paradigms of volunteering, attitudes to volunteering under communism, residual and emancipatory value of volunteering, CSOs and institutionalization of volunteering, structure of volunteering, patterns of volunteering.

  1. Anti-Civil Society and CSOs

Culture of informality, clientelistic networks, systemic corruption, institutional trap, simulated democracy, defective democracy, state party financing+political marketing=stateting democracy, CSOs and anti-corruption strategies, society disorganization

  1. Un-civil society, populism and CSOs

The rise of populism and civic participation, autocratic populist leaders and CSOs, the struggle for the image of CSOs in society, society polarization, anti-populism, failure of CSOs as a brake on the erosion of democracy, economic participation of citizens in the maintenance of democracy.

  1. Future of CS in the perspective of democratization/de-democratization

Current challenges of CS development, the role of CSOs in autocratic (illiberal) democracy, advent of political extremism, vision of civic sector development.

 

OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, you will have acquired:

 

1.     understanding of the theoretical background of the organized civil society development.

2.     an awareness of the key issues of the political developments in Czech Republic and others Central European countries and its influence on civil society consolidation.

3.     understanding of the Path Dependence Effects on Civil Society internal structure and consolidation process

4.     knowledge of how to analyze and compare the basic parameters of Civil Society development.

5.     understanding how the development of civil society has affected the quality of democracy in the Central European region

6.     knowledge about the prospects for the development of civil society in Central Europe.

 

TEACHING METHOD

The lectures will start on February 22 and will take place using the Zoom platform. The lectures will be held online every second Wednesday from 12:30 to 13:50 with a break for discussion.

 

Every other week, between lectures, students will submit written answers of approximately 60 lines to the homework questions posed at the end of the lectures to the "Task" created in Moodle by a specified deadline.

 

Each new lecture will begin with a discussion of the answers to the questions.

 

The homework questions will relate to the content of the compulsory literature. One text for compulsory reading will be assigned to each lecture.

 

At the end of the semester, each student will produce approximately 13 pages of homework text, which will be the subject of evaluation.

 

The final exam will take place in the form of final text of a minimum 10 and a maximum of 15 standard pages (each standard page has 30 lines of font size 12). Each student can determine the topic in the boundaries of the course lectures. The genre of the work is an essay, or rather a reflection on the problems of relations between elites and non-elites in the Czech Republic after Velvet Revolution.

 

EVALUATION

- written answers to homework questions = max. 45 points

- final essay = max. 55 points

 

To complete the course, the student must achieve at least 75 points!

 

If the student does not get the required number of points on the first attempt (given by the sum of points for answers and for written work), then s/he has two more options to correct the essay according to the teacher's recommendations.

 

ELECTRONIC SUPPORT

At Moodles, students will also find presentations for particular lectures, including questions to answer, as well as all study texts for compulsory reading.

 

 

COMPULSORY TEXTS:

 

  1. Introduction

Salamon, Lester M.  and Helmut K. Anheier 1992. In search of the non-profit sector. I: The question of definitions. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 125-151.

  1. Civil Society and CSOs as Schools of Democracy

Dodge, Jennifer and Sonia, M. Ospina. 2015. Nonprofits as “Schools of Democracy”: A Comparative Case Study of Two Environmental Organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 1–22

  1. Historical Roots of CSOs in CE Countries

Skovajsa, Marek. 2008.  Independent and Broader Civil Society in East-Central European Democratizations. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Volume 4, No.2: 47-73

  1. Consolidation of Civil Sector in CE Countries after 1989

Kuti, Eva. 1999. Different Eastern European countries at different crossroads. In: VOLUNTAS, Vol. 10, No. 1.

  1. Power Elite and Civil Society (CSOs) Relations

Dvořáková, Vladislava. 2003. Civil Society in the Czech Republic: “Impulse 99” and “Thank You, Time To Go”. In: Kopecký P. and Mudde C. eds. Uncivil Society?: ontentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe.       London: Routledge.

  1. Public Policy and Civil Sector in the CE Countries

Piotrowski, Grzegorz. 2020. Civil Society in Illiberal Democracy: The Case of Poland. Czech journal of political science / politologický časopis. Vol. 2, pp. 196-214. 

  1. CSOs´ Professionalization and Marketization

Fagan, Adam. 2005. Taking Stock of Civil-Society Development in Post-communist Europe: Evidence from the Czech Republic. Democratization, Vol.12, No.4, pp.528–547. DOI: 10.1080=13510340500226077

  1. Civil Engagement in the CE Countries after 1989

Tarrow, Sidney-Tsveta Petrova. 2006. Transactional and Participatory Activism in the Emerging European Polity: The Puzzle of East-Central Europe. Comparative Political Studies, Volume 20, Number 10, pp. 1-21.

  1. Philanthropy in CE Countries

Schuyt, Theo, Jan Smit, Rene Bekkers. 2010. Constructing a Philanthropy-scale: Social Responsibility and Philanthropy. Social Work & Society, Volume 8, Issue 1.

  1. Volunteering in CE Countries

Hustinx, L., Cnaan, R.A., Handy, F. 2010. The Navigating Theories of Volunteering: The hybrid map for a komplex phenomenon. Journal of the               Theory of Social Behaviour, 40 (4), 410-434.

  1. Anti-Civil Society and CSOs

Zakaria Patty. 2012. Is Corruption an Enemy of Civil Society? The case of Central and Eastern Europe. International Political Science Review 0(0) 1–21. DOI: 10.1177/0192512112466880

12. Un-civil society, populism and CSOs

Slačálek, Ondřej – Eva Svobodová. 2017. Professionalised “civil society” vs. grassroots “uncivil society”? The “Little Czech” 20 years later. Socio.hu, Special issue, pp. 23-52. DOI: 10.18030/socio.hu.2017en.23

13. Future of CS in the perspective of demokratization/de-democratization

Salamon, Lester M. The Resilient Sector: The Future of Nonprofit America.

 

 

 
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