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Civil Society and Social Capital in Central and Eastern Europe

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Introduction

Social capital is a relatively new research area in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) – Albania, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Litvania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia (by OECD). At the same time, it is a very popular approach in the research about the region, applied, for example, by the World Bank or the United Nation’s Development Programme.

At the same time, the concept of civil society has a great history in the CEE countries too. In this region, it was during enlightened absolutism that civil society started to thrive, firstly the Church, then the state and private individuals started to set up establishments: foundations and associations. The establishments that have existed in Western Europe since the fifteenth century, in this region, in fact, came about in the second half of the 1800s, following the growth of the middle class and the economic development....

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  1. National Volunteer Centre of Hungary, Mrgit krt. 44., 1027, Budapest, Hungary

    Klára Czike

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  1. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Helmut K. Anheier

  2. Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany

    Helmut K. Anheier

  3. George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA

    Stefan Toepler

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Czike, K. (2010). Civil Society and Social Capital in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93996-4_733

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