Required readings:

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. (2017). Challenges facing civil society organizations working on human rights in the EU. Available at http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/challenges-facing-civil-society-orgs-human-rights-eu

International Centre of Not-for-Profit Law, and World Movement for Democracy Secretariat (2012): Defending Civil Society Report [2^nd Edition], Washington DC: National Endowment for Democracy, http://www.icnl.org/research/resources/dcs/DCS_Report_Second_Edition_English.pdf

IUPUI Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. (2018). The Global Philanthropy Environment Index 2018. Available at https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/15958

 Joseph, S. (2002). Society vs State? Civil Society, Political Society and Non-Party Political Process in India. Economic and political weekly, 299-305. Available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/4411653?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

 Mendelson, S. E. (2015). Why Governments Target Civil Society and What Can Be Done in Response. Center for Strategic and International Studies. Available at https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/AboutUs/CivilSociety/ReportHC/67_CSIS-MendelsonGovTargetCivilSocietyNewAgenda-2.pdf

Pauly, R., De Rynck, F., & Verschuere, B. (2016). The relationship between government and civil society: a neo-Gramscian framework for analysis. In European Group for Public Administration. Available at https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8065871/file/8065904.pdf

World Economic Forum. (2013). The Future Role of Civil Society. Available at http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FutureRoleCivilSociety_Report_2013.pdf