Budowanie społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w Europie współcześnie – mit czy konieczność?

Abstract

The aim of the study is to show the opportunities for the development of civil society in the European Union. The results of the Democracy Index and the Gender Equality Index have been used to assess the possibility of realising this idea. The authors consider what civil society is and how it should be perceived, presenting various definitional traditions and reviewing the definition of the term. The second part of the article analyses the scores that individual European countries have achieved in the two indices under consideration. It allows conclusions to be drawn about European integration in the context of the values that should be cultivated in order to strengthen civil society.