Donors in a Dictatorship: Giving, Civil Society, and Democratic Action in Communist East Germany
| Autor: | Gregory R. Witkowski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Civil society
Public Administration Sociology and Political Science Human rights Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Public administration Dictatorship language.human_language Democracy German Protestantism language Transnationalism Sociology Business and International Management Communism media_common |
| Zdroj: | VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 26:2447-2461 |
| ISSN: | 1573-7888 0957-8765 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11266-014-9517-3 |
| Popis: | This history of charitable collections in the East German dictatorship (the Protestant organized Bread for the World and the student-led Initiative: Hope for Nicaragua) analyzes the relationship between philanthropy, civil society, and democratic action. These collections, widely unknown outside of the former German Democratic Republic, indicate that independent associations could form to organize philanthropic collections for international causes in this dictatorship. These groups provided the basis for actions outside of state control by engaging East Germans in support of human rights and individual need internationally. As such, my work shows that philanthropy can both exist within a dictatorship and encourage democratic action. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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