Author:Marina Muskhelishvili

Page number, Format:123, A4

Financing:The book is prepared and published by the Center for Social Sciences, with the financial support of OSI – Zug Foundation, Higher Education Support Program (HESP) of Open Society Institute in Budapest

© Center for Social Sciences, 2006

Short description:The book contains the intensive workshop course that explains the notion from the civil society point of view and the evolution of the notion is discussed through the history. The author also considers the term of social capital determined by Panthem and implies the work of Tocqueville “Democracy in the USA”. Besides, the topics like modern theories of civil society and state, three political traditions of democracy, determination of politics and civil society, structural transformation of public space by Habermas, civil society in Georgia, systems of mass media and mass media in Georgia, also global civil society are introduced in the book.