# civil society

> social activities of individuals or groups in which the state has no involvement; civil society is the collection of non-governmental organisations and institutions which are the will and desire of citizens

**Wikidata**: [Q181865](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181865)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/civil-society


## References

1. Integrated Authority File
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. [Source](https://allsides.com/translator/civil-society)
4. BBC Things
5. YSO-Wikidata mapping project
6. Quora
7. ASC Leiden Thesaurus dataset of 5 June 2018
8. National Library of Israel
9. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)