These are large informal groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues

This perspective upholds the Lockean-Liberal's right discourse and the Aristotelian -Republican's associative element of citizenship.

While remaining external to the state, the citizen contributes to the state through certain rights and obligations like voting and taxes

Citizens who are deeply invested in the realization of both their own and society's needs

Those who have the opposite tendency and place society's needs well ahead of their own needs.

Those who are inclined to treat their own needs as far more important than those of society.

Those who are skeptical of politics in general or what they can do as citizens and give little significance either to their own or society's needs.

Based on the concept of the Greek polis and emphasizing the 'associative' element of citizenship, citizens must be integrated into the political collectivity

It is the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interest and will of citizens.