Europeanization and Civil Society Turkish NGOs as Instruments of Change [Hardcover]

Do NGOs strengthen Turkey's efforts at Europeanization and democratization or do they use EU funding to serve other interests?This book offers a critical investigation of the relationship between Turkish NGOs and the European Union (EU) and a nuanced assessment of the opportunities and limitations to fashioning social change by funding NGOs.List of Acronyms Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Europeanization from a Civil Society Perspective 3. EU Civil Society Policy 4. Civil Society in Turkey 5. NGO Relationships 6. Civil Society Support in Turkey 7. Tracing the Impact of EU Policy on the Ground 8. Conclusion Bibliography

'Europeanization and Civil Society' offers a theoretically informed, empirically rich, and critical assessment of EU relations with NGOs in Turkey. Markus Ketola shows convincingly how poorly EU civil society conceptions and funding priorities match with conditions on the ground and how local NGOs negotiate external opportunities and domestic demands.

Frank Schimmelfennig, Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Z?rich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland

Markus Ketola is a Fellow at the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His research interests include civil society, NGOs, social policy and development, with a particular focus on both Turkey and the European Union.