Europeanization and Civil Society
Turkish NGOs as Instruments of Change?
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:1st Jan '13
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Do NGOs strengthen Turkey's efforts at Europeanization and democratization or do they use EU funding to serve other interests?This book offers a critical investigation of the relationship between Turkish NGOs and the European Union (EU) and a nuanced assessment of the opportunities and limitations to fashioning social change by funding NGOs.Do NGOs strengthen Turkey's efforts at Europeanization and democratization or do they use EU funding to serve other interests?This book offers a critical investigation of the relationship between Turkish NGOs and the European Union (EU) and a nuanced assessment of the opportunities and limitations to fashioning social change by funding NGOs.
'Europeanization and Civil Society' offers a theoretically informed, empirically rich, and critical assessment of EU relations with NGOs in Turkey. Markus Ketola shows convincingly how poorly EU civil society conceptions and funding priorities match with conditions on the ground and how local NGOs negotiate external opportunities and domestic demands.
Frank Schimmelfennig, Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland
ISBN: 9781349441860
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 261g
187 pages
1st ed. 2013