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What is the impact of civil society on good governance in societies in transition? How can governments benefit from the expertise of the NGO sector? To what extent do EU accession procedures influence the development of good governance? The publication

Wolfgang Benedek (Ed.): Civil Society and Good Governance in Societies in Transition. Vienna / Belgrade: Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag / Belgrade Centre for Human Rights 2006, 239 pp.

tries to find some answers.
In this collection, scholars and practitioners from seven South East European countries describe the role of civil society and clarify its relationship to the promotion of good governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Miroslav Zivanovic), Croatia (Igor Vidacak and Jasmina Bocic), Kosova (Valon Murati), Macedonia (Selvie Shaqiri), Montenegro (Nebojsa B. Vucinic and Sinisa Bjekovic), Serbia (Igor Bandovic) and Slovenia (Tina Divjak). The collection is opened by a foreword of Vojin Dimitrijevic, the director of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, and contains an introduction and general conclusions by the editor, Wolfgang Benedek.