Abstract
Civil society is often seen as an important part of societal governance where it is discussed as the intermediary link between the individual and society. But even though we define civil society organisations as an integral part of the good governance of society – and their internal processes thus are expected to influence also the external governance processes – we have little knowledge about the strategic processes within these organisations. This chapter presents a longitudinal case study of the interplay of discourse and governance within a large federative Swedish civil society organisation and illustrates how discourse shapes organisational power relations at a given time while power relations shapes organisational discourse over time.