CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Pisarev, Ivan Ivanovich |
|---|---|
| Title | Interest Groups and Civil Society through the prism of the Civil Society Index of the World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS) |
| Summary | In my thesis, I analyze interest groups as a medium of lobbying and advocacy, which I distinguish based on the type of interest, private or public, that they represent. I review three theoretical frameworks of explanation of interest group politics, including pluralism, collective action theory and corporatism. I provide statistical analysis of three types of participation (“active membership”, “passive membership” and “not belonging”) on ten different types of the voluntary organizations from the data collected within the fifth wave of the World Values Survey, to see how they are impacted by the four dimensions (“structure”, “environment”, “values” and “impact”) of the quality of the civil society from the data collected by the World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS) within the Civil Society Index project. In the final part of my work I propose an Identity axis model that can be used as one of the explanations of functioning of interest groups. |
| Supervisor | Schneider, Carsten |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/pisarev_ivan.pdf |
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