CONTENTS
Introduction
. The concept of the democracy
. The history of civil society
. The definition of the civil society
.1 Array of organisations
.2 Social order and responsibilitylist of the used literature
INTRODUCTION
society groups - charities, faith-based organizations, trade unions, advocates and others outside government, family and commerce - have proven essential elements in fully functioning democracies. Perhaps for this very reason, these groups around the world face unprecedented assaults from authoritarian policies and governments on their autonomy, ability to operate, and right to receive international assistance. Recent years have witnessed proliferating efforts by various governments to restrict the space in which civil society organizations in general and democracy groups in particular operate.Defending Civil Society project is an ongoing effort to develop strategies and build solidarity among activists and groups pushing back against laws repressing nongovernmental organizations., state, market, civil society constitute the entirety of a society, and the relations between these components determine the character of a society and its structure. Building the well ordered society, or restoring the social order, entails reinvigorating the mediating institutions of society that transmit and reinforce personal and social responsibility and moral constraint-and it entails restoring the public (including the state) recognition of normative values ​​that bind citizens and their institutional affiliations into a truly civil society. In a country where the state has incrementally absorbed many social functions and where the political system has become so debased as to have largely lost its moral and philosophical moorings, the renewal of political culture needs necessarily to be among the high priorities in rebuilding the well ordered society.
1. THE CONCEPT OF THE DEMOCRACY
Democracy can be defined as:
. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.
. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
. political or social equality; democratic spirit.
. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power., the Democracy is a form of political organization in which all people, throu...
