ABSTRACT It is, today, widely accepted that market structures, logics, identities and activities are spreading throughout society, including civil society and its organisations. Scholars increasingly use the marketisation concept to describe these tendencies. This paper reviews the meaning attached to this concept, when used in the context of civil society. A sample of 210 peer-reviewed articles in civil society studies published between 1993 and 2017 is explored in an analysis that suggests that marketisation is being used with much variation in the literature. The analysis also shows that apart from more generic descriptions of persistent attempts to privatise and commodify various goods and services, few articles seem to involve more detailed definitions or profound conceptual arguments. Taken together, this indicates a development where the concept of marketisation runs the risk of losing its analytical powers. To avoid this, the paper proposes a stricter and more transparent use of the term ‘marketisation’ and suggests ways to further develop this concept in research.

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一个主题的变化：在公民社会研究中探索对市场化概念的理解

摘要 如今，市场结构、逻辑、身份和活动正在遍及整个社会，包括公民社会及其组织，这一点已被广泛接受。学者越来越多地使用市场化概念来描述这些趋势。本文回顾了这个概念在民间社会背景下使用时的含义。一项分析探索了 1993 年至 2017 年间发表的 210 篇民间社会研究同行评审文章的样本，该分析表明市场化正在被使用，但文献中存在很大差异。分析还表明，除了对各种商品和服务私有化和商品化的持续尝试进行更笼统的描述外，似乎很少有文章涉及更详细的定义或深刻的概念论证。综合起来，这表明市场化概念有失去其分析能力的风险。为避免这种情况，本文提出了更严格、更透明地使用“市场化”一词，并提出了在研究中进一步发展这一概念的方法。