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E-Artikel
Titel:
Explaining the strength of civil society: Evidence from cross-sectional data
Beteiligte:
Bailer, Stefanie;
Bodenstein, Thilo;
Heinrich, V. Finn
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2013
Erschienen in:International Political Science Review
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1177/0192512111419823
ISSN:
0192-5121;
1460-373X
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<jats:p> A number of societal and institutional factors enhance the development of a vibrant civil society, such as a country’s socioeconomic traditions and societal structure, political institutions, or foreign influence. But the question of which one of these factors contributes most to a vibrant civil society still remains unanswered. Using ordinary least square techniques, this article statistically tests the competing factors with a large- N design that includes 42 countries. Our dependent variable is the new Civil Society Index, composed of a structural and a value dimension of civil society. The results show that a country’s quality of political institutions and a high degree of religious fragmentation have the strongest impact on the development of a vibrant civil society. In order to examine the causal relationship, we reassess our findings by conducting two case studies on Chile and Russia. The case studies corroborate the causal direction from the quality of political institutions to a stronger civil society. </jats:p>