All these resources  (books, websites, articles a.o.) are linked to Civic Driven Change. However, a distinction is made on four themes: Civic Driven Change general, Social business, Citizenship and Global Citizenship. To read more about these themes that are linked to CDC, please see below.

 

Civic Driven Change general

[book] Fowler, A. And Biekart, K. (Eds.) 2008, Civic Driven Change – Citizen’s Imagination in Action. The Hague: Institute of Social Studies

A product of an eight-month process of collective thinking and debate by a group of international, multi-disciplined and experienced scholar-activists, academics and practitioners, this book captures the esscence of the Civic Driven Change and it's impact on development through it's collection of essays.

[website] The Change Alliance

The Change Alliance is an emerging global network of organisations joining forces to increase the effectiveness of the multi-stakeholder processes with which they engage. Its aim is to help improve the quality of the design, dialogue, learning, and facilitation, on which these processes depend. The logic of the Alliance is that complex problems demand a new dynamic of how governments, citizens, business and civil society organisations work together. The Alliance functions by linking specific multi-stakeholder 'learning sites' with a global learning and knowledge sharing platform.

Social Business

[book] Bornstein, D. (Ed.) 2007, How to Change the World – Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. Oxford: University Press

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes David Bornstein, the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up–and remake the world for the better. How to Change the World tells the fascinating stories of these remarkable individuals–many in the United States, others in countries from Brazil to Hungary. These extraordinary stories highlight a massive transformation that is going largely unreported by the media: Around the world, the fastest-growing segment of society is the nonprofit sector, as millions of ordinary people–social entrepreneurs–are increasingly stepping in to solve the problems where governments and bureaucracies have failed. How to Change the World shows, as its title suggests, that with determination and innovation, even a single person can make a surprising difference.

[book] Yunus, M. 2010, Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. New York: Public Affairs

In this book, Yunus shows how social business has gone from being a theory to an inspiring practice, adopted by leading corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across Asia, South America, Europe and the US. He demonstrates how social business transforms lives; offers practical guidance for those who want to create social businesses of their own; explains how public and corporate policies must adapt to make room for the social business model; and shows why social business holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.

[website] Netherlands Institue for Social Venturing Entrepeneurship (NSVE) - Nyenrode Businisess University

Social venturing entrepreneurship (SVE) applies entrepreneurship and investments practices to intractable societal problems in areas where the government and the market is functioning poorly or lacks. The Netherlands Institute for Social Venturing Entrepreneurship (NSVE) conducts scientific research after this new approach  to solve societal problems, which the commercial market, philanthropy and government do not address as their core competence. 

[website] Social Enterprise Initiative - Harvard Business School

Grounded in Harvard Business School's mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the Social Enterprise Initiative aims to generate knowledge and to inspire, educate, and support current and emerging leaders in all sectors to apply management skills to create social value.

Citizenship

[book] Boyte, H. 2008, The citizen solution - how you can make a difference. Minnesota: Historical Society Press

Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home. Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public consciousness and effectively motivate community-based groups, Boyte grounds his arguments in the country's tradition of "populism," demonstrating how mobilized citizens can be far more powerful than our frequently paralyzed politicians.

[book] Green, D. 2008, From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change The World. Oxford: Oxfam International

From Poverty to Power examines the change processes that affect development in the 21st century. The book is intended to provide critical insights into the massive human and economic costs of inequality and poverty and propose realistic solutions. It recommends: 1) active citizenry to give people living in poverty a voice in deciding their own destiny, fighting for rights and justice in their own society, and holding states and the private sector to account and 2) effective nation states, because of the need for a state structure that can actively manage the development process.

[book] Knight, B., Chigudu, H. And Tandon, R. 2002, Reviving Democracy: Citizens at the heart of governance. London: Earthscan Publications

The aim of this book is to analyze the conditions for a good society and to show how citizens can be and need to be put at the center of the political process. Drawing on research in forty-seven Commonwealth countries, the authors explore the ways in which this can be carried out. The book sets out to stimulate a change in the current political consensus and demonstrate the route forward to sustainable development. The book has enormous importance for future policy and will be vital for policy-makers and professionals in politics, social policy and development.

[book] Cornwall, A., Coelho, V.S. 2007 Spaces for Change: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arena's. London: Zed Books

The challenge of building democratic polities where all can realize their rights and claim substantive citizenship is one of the greatest of our age. In recent years, innovations in governance have created a plethora of new democratic spaces in many countries. Yet there remains a gap between the legal and technical apparatus that has been created to institutionalise participation and the reality of the effective exclusion of poorer and more marginalised citizens. It is with this gap, and the challenges of inclusion, representation and voice that it raises, that this book is concerned.

[book] Kabeer, N. 2005. Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions. London: Zed Books

Inclusive Citizenship seeks to go beyond the intellectual debates of recent years on democratization and participation to explore a related set of issues around changing conceptions of citizenship. People's understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of identity, including national identity; political and electoral participation; and rights.

[book] Bruyn, S. 2005, A Civil Republic – Beyond Capitalism and Nationalism. Bloomfield: Kumarian Press

Envisions a new model of governance: a civil republic, which combines the human values of civil society and the market aspects of political economy, moving the world beyond conventions of capitalism and nationalism. Written for scholars and practitioners of international relations, economics, political science, business, international development, and international law.

[website] The Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a leading global charity for international development research, teaching and communications.IDS was founded in 1966 and enjoys an international reputation based on the quality of its work and its commitment to applying academic skills to real world challenges. Its purpose is to understand and explain the world, and to try to change it – to influence as well as to inform.

[working paper] IDS: Hossain, N. 2009, Rude Accountability in the Unreformed State: Informal Pressures on Frontline Bureaucrats in Bangladesh

'Rude' forms of accountability are central to how poor people negotiate their entitlements on the frontline of service delivery in Bangladesh. This paper documents the unorganised, informal pressures that poor citizens exert on officials in a context where effective formal systems for accountability are absent, and the state remains unreformed in key respects.

[website] Center for Democracy and Citizenship - Augsburg College Minneapolis, United States

The Center for Democracy and Citizenship collaborates with a variety of partners to promote active citizenship and public work by people of all ages. The center's work is grounded in the belief that a healthy democracy requires everyone's participation, and that each of us has something to contribute.

[website] Life and Peace Institute

The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) is an international and ecumenical centre that supports and promotes nonviolent approaches to conflict transformation through a combination of research and action. LPI is a specialized Institute conducting scientific research about international conflicts. LPI wants to further a process that heals and restores human beings and societies.
 

Global citizenship

[article] Desforges, L. 2004. The formation of global citizenship: international non-governmental organisations in Britain. Political Geography, 23, 549-569

Globalisation has changed the formation of contemporary citizenship. At the same time as undermining the role of the nation state in the construction of political participation, new arenas of citizenship are suggestive of an emergent ‘global citizenship’. Analysis of participation in politics at the scale of the global has suggested that civil society associations are strongly implicated in this process. This paper explores the role played by such institutions in the configuration of global citizenship. Through a case study of international development NGOs in the UK, and the relationship they build with the public, the paper suggests that international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) offer a version of global citizenship, which is highly circumscribed by their professional and institutional imperatives.

[article] Beneker, T., Vaart, van der, R., Global citizenship and development. In: P. van Lindert e.a. (red.), Development matters: geographical studies on development process and policies, pp. 127-138. Utrecht: Faculteit Geowetenschappen Universiteit Utrecht, 2006