How Civil Society Influences Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index in Post-Communist Europe

Overseas Development Institute and CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Report March 2007

Posted: 6 Jul 2012 Last revised: 29 Oct 2012

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Lorenzo Fioramonti

University of Pretoria; Centre for Social Investment, University of Heidelberg; Hertie School of Governance; UNU Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies

Volkhart Finn Heinrich

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: March 1, 2007

Abstract

This working paper, a collaboration between CIVICUS and ODI, presents an analysis of the policy-relevant findings of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index in a group of countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Ukraine.

Keywords: Civil society, measurement, Eastern Europe, post-communist

Suggested Citation

Fioramonti, Lorenzo and Heinrich, Volkhart Finn, How Civil Society Influences Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index in Post-Communist Europe (March 1, 2007). Overseas Development Institute and CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Report March 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2100418 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2100418

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