Civil Society in 21st Century Greece: Locating Challenges, Charting Opportunities, Assessing Developments

Vasilios Makrides

1 Introduction

Civil society is commonly connected to the so-called “third sector”, which is supposed to be differentiated from the state and the private, profit-oriented domain/ market and is mainly associated with the existence and activities of various professional, welfare and religious non-profit organisations as well as with both formal and informal networks and groups of citizens or even broader social movements. Based on voluntary or semi-voluntary initiatives for the advancement of common interests, these are not only meant to provide an array of important services, to apply specific programmes of solidarity ...

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