Civil Society in Transition: The East German Third Sector Ten Years After Unification
Civil Society in Transition: The East German Third Sector Ten Years After Unification
Author(s): Helmut K. Anheier, Eckhard Priller, Annette ZimmerSubject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Government/Political systems, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Former Eastern Bloc; civil society; transition; third sector; unification; fall of Berlin Wall; German democratic Republic; 1990s;
Summary/Abstract: In recent years, the development of the third sector in the former Eastern Bloc countries has attracted special attention from policy-makers and analysts alike. Has the sector become an integral part of civil society, or is it still functioning as a proxy for state institutions? A decade after the Berlin Wall crumbled and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) collapsed, these two questions are still being discussed. On the one hand, the "pacifist revolution," the grass-roots movement of 1989, and the booming of new nonprofit organizations in the early 1990s are taken as evidence of the high acceptance and "embeddedness" at local levels. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 15/2001
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 139-156
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
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