25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology
25th IVR World Congress Law and technology
Frankfurt am Main
15–20 August 2011
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Roles of citizens or "civil society" and responsibility of state
(2012)
- Civil Society became an important theme in the recent discussion of political or social theory. Civil Society is playing a substantial role for the legislation process. We can find it especially in the activities of international NGO. It gives a new aspect of the relationship between state and society, and legal philosophically speaking, of validity of law. Activities of Civil Society are socially recognized and their support systems are gradually institutionalized also domestic in Japan. But Japanese NPO has its own weak point, which arises from the political structure of our society.
