The Role of the Civil Organisations and the Civil Elite in the Social Processes

Abstract

There are lot of literature worlwide on the role of the civil/nonprofit organisations in the economy and the society, but only in the past few years got into the focus of these studies theimportance of the role of these organisations in the participatory (active) democracy. This function of the civil/nonprofit organisations are getting more and more important, nowadays it can be stated that this role is essential to an efficient democracy. The aim of my study is to give a short summary about one of the most important role of the civil/nonprofit organisations called the participatory (active) democracy. Further I present those requirementsw hich are necessary to be able to held on an efficient active democracy. Finally I show the role of civil elite in these processes.