Citizen Action and Civil Society Concepts

Concepts describing how citizens act outside government to shape public life. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes the voluntary associations and public initiatives through which people pursue shared interests, or a form of political protest by individuals. Civil society is the sphere of voluntary organizations and associations between the household and the state, and civil disobedience is the deliberate public breach of a law in order to protest it, usually with a willingness to accept the legal consequence. The group lets a reader compare organized public life with a form of principled protest.