Civil society and good governance

Readings and class materials for Thursday, October 9, 2025

Readings

•  Alisa Herrero Cangas, “The Good Governance Agenda of Civil Society: Implications for ACP-EU Cooperation,” Brief (Maastricht, Netherlands: European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), December 2, 2004), https://ecdpm.org/work/the-good-governance-agenda-of-civil-society-implications-for-acp-eu-cooperation.

•  Chapters 5–6 in Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Y. Nanetti, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).

•  Chapters 2–3 in Shamima Ahmed and David Potter, NGOs in International Politics (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006).

•  Michael W. Foley and Bob Edwards, “The Paradox of Civil Society,” Journal of Democracy 7, no. 3 (July 1996): 38–52, https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.1996.0048.