NGOS VS CIVIL SOCIETY: REFLECTIONS ON THE ILLIBERAL,THE ILLEGITIMATE AND THE UNACCOUNTABLE |
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| Authors: | Elaine Sternberg |
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| Institution: | University of Leeds School of Philosophy and a Senior Visiting Fellow of the University of Buckingham Beloff Centre for the Study of Liberty |
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| Abstract: | This essay evaluates the nature of non‐governmental organisations and their relation to civil society, and examines appropriate criteria of legitimacy and accountability for NGOs. Unfortunately, many common understandings of NGOs embody fundamental confusions, and obscure the ways in which NGOs are inimical to individual liberty. |
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| Keywords: | NGOs civil society coercion individual liberty |
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