Force behind ‘civil society’

The stupendous growth of the civil society movement is ascribed to the wide-scale emergence of non-governmental organisations throughout the world in the latter half of the 20th Century, as a mechanism for change, development and reform, parallel or supplementary to the services provided by the political and administrative apparatus of the state. However, sceptics question the very premise of parallel governance and policy-making by people and agencies, without public accountability, seeing in the exercise a hidden plan by amorphous forces to sabotage the state and eventually take over the functions of Government. 

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