Civil society
Popularity Index: 230 Updated at 2026-08-30 10:44 UTCSites
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Faith-based charities deliver welfare in places the state never reaches
Religion lost legal power in most of Europe and kept its social functions
Unions were the largest civil society organizations of the twentieth century
Tocqueville thought American democracy ran on voluntary associations
Do international NGOs answer to anyone
Welfare institutions were built around a family model that no longer fits most households
What happens to a neighborhood program when the funding cycle ends and the staff leave?
Trust in institutions has fallen while demand for what they deliver has risen
Civic engagement surveys count memberships and miss everything people do informally
Religion as an institution is measured by attendance and that measure is collapsing
Volunteering tracks education and income more closely than goodwill
Families were the welfare system long before there was a welfare state
The third sector is asked to do state work without state money
Putnam's bowling alone thesis and the decline of civic association
Crowdsourced directories of NGOs fail on verification rather than on contributions
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