Citizens Movements as Third Power
Proposed Definition
Marc Nerfin:
"Contrasting with governmental power and economic power —the power of the Prince and the Merchant—there is an immediate and autonomous power, sometimes evident, sometimes latent: people's power. Some people develop an awareness of this, associate and act with others and thus become citizens.* Citizens and their associations, when they do not seek either governmental or economic power, constitute the third system. Helping to bring what is latent into the open, the third system is one expression of the autonomous power of the people." (http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/87_1/87_1_12.pdf)