The disappointments of civil society
The politics of NGO intervention in northern Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5914906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giles Mohan (0000-0002-0409-4783, University of Portsmouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-154 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0962-6298 • E-ISSN: 1873-5096 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0962-6298(01)00072-5 |
| OpenAlex | W2082066044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 119 |
| References cited | 62 |
Civil society · Decentralization · Democracy · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Vision · International Development and Aid · Law · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development
Globalizing Governmentality
Leave No One Behind
Performing partnership
Bring back big government
The Politics of Localization
Culture and Development in a Globalizing World
Their Members’ Voice
The Role of NGOs and Civil Society in Development and Poverty Reduction
Religious actors, civil society and the development agenda
Negotiating the NGO/Social Movement Dichotomy
Where the Knots of Narrative Are Tied and Untied
Marriage of the Unwilling? The Paradox of Local Government and NGO Relations in Ghana
The Effectiveness of Environmental Civil Society Organizations
The Relationship Between Liberian CSOs and International Donor Funding
Uneven territorial sponsorship
Responsible Firm Behaviour in Political Markets
Genealogy of civil society
Does size really matter? The prevalence of NGOs and challenges to development in Northern Ghana
The greening of poverty reduction strategy papers
Performing Agency in Shrinking Spaces
Within, Above, and Beyond
Weak civil society in a hard state
Rethinking Persistent Poverty in Northern Ghana
Going out and going green
The urbanization policy of Turkey
Challenges to decentralisation in Ghana
Between Forests and Courts
With faith in development
Analysing institutional partnerships in development
Public Administration, Civil Society, & Democracy
Aids NGOS and corruption in Nigeria
Critical friend or absent partner? Institutional and organisational barriers to the development of regional civil society
The universal common good
Do local needs matter
Up and Down, and Inside Out
Friend or Patron? Social Relations Across the National NGO–Donor Divide in Ghana
From shouting to counting
Iatrogenic Violence? Lived Experiences of Recipients of Aid that Targets Vulnerable Children in Makete, Tanzania
Decentralization or privatization of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia
If the change is going to happen it's not by us
Political geography
Geography of development
NGOs and uneven development
NGOs, States, and Donors Revisited
The Dynamics of Social Capital and Community Associations in Uganda
Caught between winning repeat business and learning
Downward Accountability in Unequal Alliances
Collaborating in the field, working for change
Reflections on Indigenous Women's Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Navigating Constraints
The phenomenon of NGOs
Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
This place becomes a place’
The state, civil society and the shadow state
We have big ideas, but only small words’
Blueprint for breakdown? Community Based Management of rural groundwater in Uganda
Nongovernmental organizations and genetically modified crops in Kenya
Producing interventions for Aids-affected young people in Lesotho’s schools
The Perpetual Uncertainty of Civil Society
Empowering witches and the West
NGOs, doctors, and the patrimonial state – tactics for political engagement in Nigeria
Increasing children's participation in African transport planning
A Comparative Analysis of the Government and NGOs in Delivering Quality Services for the Rural People of Pakistan
Civil Society, NGOs, and the Holy Spirit in Mozambique
Commercializing Nature
Democratising the media in the new democracies of Ghana and Nigeria
NGOs and sustainable rural development
Autonomy and policy independence in Africa
Too big to succeed
Take back your fish
Money, people or mission? Accountability in local and non-local NGOs
Civil society, hybridity and peacebuilding in Burundi
Caught in the Middle
Existing at the Interface
Voluntary Labor, Responsible Citizenship, and International NGOs
Civil society and compliance with constitutions
Spatialities of transnational resistance to globalization
A Way to Paradise”
Creating a greater partnership
Promoting democracy in Ghana
Substitution or Facilitation
The Impact of Neoliberalism and New Managerialism on Development Volunteering
The best of times, the worst of times
Transforming state–civil society relations
Constructing civil society
The formation of global citizenship
A Test of Governance
The politics of protecting the poorest
Sovereign excesses? Portraying postcolonial sovereigntyscapes
From Local to Global to Transnational Civil Society
Progressive Geopolitics
Born to Be Wild? Non-governmental Organisations, Politics and the Environment
Using courts to build states
The subject of citizenship - Can there be a posthuman civil society
Gramsci's activists
Reading the 'uncivil' in civil society resistance to transitional justice in Côte d'Ivoire
Rethinking the spaces of civil society
NGOs and Feminisms in Development
Civil Society, Everyday Life and the Possibilities for Development Studies
Civil Society and the Governance of Urban Food Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Destabilizing theory
No Shortcuts to Progress
Capability and Well-Being
The Precarious Balance
The Quality of Life
The Criminalization of the State in Africa
State Power and Social Forces
The Transformation of Democracy?
The state in society
Not so Distant, Not so Strange
Ghana’s Shift from Radical Populism
The Transformation of Democracy
Liberation Ecologies
Development Theory
Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa
Development, Post-, Anti-, and Populist
Uncivil society, capitalism and the state in Africa
Not so distant, not so strange
Promoting Democratic Governance in the South
Civil society and development geography
Reconstructing World Politics
Biting the Bullet
The politics of government-NGO relations in Africa
Paradox of Empowerment
Too close for comfort? the impact of official aid on nongovernmental organizations
Confrontation, co‐operation or co‐optation
Distant obligations
The ‘NGO‐isation’ of Kenyan society
The ‘uses and abuses’ of civil society in Africa
The liberation of civil society
Who needs civil society
The new managerialism in local governance
Participatory development and empowerment
NGDOs as a moment in history
Democracy Against Capitalism
Civil society, social capital, and development
Power in Africa
Aid and political conditionality
Reencountering Development
The Short cut to international development
Development alternatives
Adjustment and decentralization in Ghana
Culture sits in places
Crossing the great divide
Rethinking Civil Society
Viewpoint NGOs, civil society and the state
Corporate governance for NGOs
Welfare as Work? The Potential of the UK Social Economy
The Emperor's New Clothes
NGOs and advocacy
Authentic NGDO Partnerships in the New Policy Agenda for International Aid
Is There a Civil Society in Africa
Citizen and Subject
The Anatomy of Capitalist Societies
The importance of being local
| Unique citing works | 119 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,96 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 115 |