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Programs > Faculty and Student Research > Civil Society, Government, and Governance Seminar

 

Civil Society, Government, and Governance Seminar

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Civil Society, Government, and Governance was the theme for the 2004-2005 academic-year Fellowship. Beginning in the 1990s, there was a general euphoria over the future of civil society and civil society organizations [CSOs], which were lauded for their presumed ability to fund social capital and to democratize the actions of the state. (Examples of CSOs would include voluntary associations, nonprofits, community-based organizations, NGOs, social reform groups, and transnational private voluntary organizations.)

In many countries, these groups were increasingly asked to bear the burden of social welfare programs as national bureaucracies contracted with government retrenchment and privatization. At the same time, they began to receive growing recognition from organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank, efforts that underscored the growing importance of transnational CSOs as political actors.

In the process, many untested assumptions about the value of these organizations were integrated into public policymaking. This interdisciplinary seminar will examine the political roles of civil society organizations from a variety of viewpoints and disciplines.

The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society has appoint eight faculty fellows and five graduate-student fellows for the 2004-2005 academic year. Fellows were drawn from the social sciences and humanities. Faculty Fellows received one course release time for the year of their fellowship, and Doctoral Fellows received a stipend of $5,000. All full-time CUNY faculty members were eligible for the Faculty fellowships (release-time awards were subject to departmental approval); level III GSUC students were eligible for Graduate fellowships. Deadline was Wednesday, April 21, 2004.

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Faculty Fellowship Application;

Graduate Fellowship Application

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