Russia: NGO registration, democracy, and civil society

... scholars argue that NGOs which rely on outside funding, either from government or from foreign funders, do not really belong to civil society. Outside funders determine priorities, rather than the organization's membership and those it is presumed ... ... serve, hence sapping internal initiative within the organization. In his classical work, THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP http://books.google.ca/books/about/Social_Origins_of_Dictatorship_and_Democ.html?id=Ip9W0yWtVO0C&redir_esc=y, Barrington ...