Download or read book Manufacturing Civil Society written by T. Brandsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities, civil society and citizenship. As a result, civil society is increasingly brought within the realm of public management, subject to accountability and embedded in hierarchies the impact and origins of which this book explores