Table of Contents

PART ONE: CONCEPTS
Democracy, Global Publics and World Opinion - Vincent Price
Democracy and Globalization - Mary Kaldor
Civil Society and the Global Market for Loyalties - Monroe E Price
PART TWO: DEMOCRACY
Democracy Promotion and Civil Society - Armine Ishkanian
Global Civil Society and Illiberal Regimes - Mary Kaldor and Denise Kostovicova
Deepening Democracy in Latin America - Miguel Darcy de Oliveira
Accountability in a Globalising World - Helmut Anheier and Amber Hawkes
PART THREE: COMMUNICATIVE POWER
Democratic Advance or Retreat? Communicative Power and Current Media Developments - James Deane
Voices of Global Civil Society: Cartoonists, Comic Strip Artists and Graphic Novelists
Media Spaces: Innovation and Activism - Clifford Bob, Jonathan Haynes, Victor Pickard, Thomas Keenan and Nick Couldry
Language and Global Politics - Sabine Selchow
De-Naturalising the ′Global′
PART FOUR: RECORDS
Diffusion Models and Global Civil Society - Helmut Anheier, Hagai Katz and Marcus Lam
Data Programme
Chronology - Compiled my Jill Timms

About the Author

Helmut K. Anheier, PhD, is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986, was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA′s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. 

He is author of over 400 publications, and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship. Amongst his recent book publications are Nonprofit Organizations - Theory, Management, Policy (London: Routledge, 2014), A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations with David Hammack (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2013) and The Global Studies Encyclopedia with Mark Juergensmeyer (5 vols, Sage, 2012).  He is the principal academic lead of the Hertie School´s annual Governance Report (Oxford University Press, 2013-), and currently working on projects relating to indicator research, social innovation, and success and failure in philanthropy.