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Institutions

academia
activist groups
charities
citizens' militia
civic groups
clubs (sports, social, etc.)
community foundations
community organizations
consumers/consumer organizations
cooperatives
churches
cultural groups
environmental groups
foundations
intermediary organizations for the voluntary and non-profit sector
men's groups
non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
non-profit organizations (NPOs)
policy institutions
political parties
private voluntary organizations (PVOs)
professional associations
religious organizations
social enterprises
support groups
trade unions
voluntary associations
women's groups

See also

Portal:Politics
Associationalism
Civic association
Civics
Civic virtue
Civil affairs
Civil liberties
Anarchism
Civil religion
Civil societarianism
Civil and political rights
Communitarianism
Constitutional economics
Cultural hegemony
Democracy
Foucault–Habermas debate
Global civics
Global governance
Human rights
Judiciary
Liberal nationalism
Mass society
Non-state actor
Open society
Political science
Public interest litigation
Rule of law
Rule According to Higher Law
Social capital
Social economy
Social entrepreneurship
Social innovation
Sociology
Power
Voluntary sector
Yearbook of International Organizations

Civil-society scholars

Jeffrey C. Alexander
Helmut Anheier
Andrew Arato
Phillip Blond
Benjamin Barber
Daniel Bell
Robert N. Bellah
Walden Bello
Jean L. Cohen
Michael Edwards
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Amitai Etzioni
Francis Fukuyama
Ernest Gellner
Susan George (political scientist)
Jürgen Habermas
Peter Dobkin Hall
Mary Kaldor
Barry Dean Karl
John Keane
David Korten
John W. Meyer
Frank Moulaert
Michael Oakeshott
Michael O'Neill
Elinor Ostrom
Robert D. Putnam
Michael Sandel
Charles Taylor
Lori Wallach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society

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