Civil Society and Democratic Theory: Alternative Voices

✍ Scribed by Gideon Baker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the debates around civil society, using democratic theory and case studies drawn from Eastern Europe and Latin America. It moves beyond the solely theoretical to examine the relationship between the idea of civil society as democratic theory and democratic practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I The parallel polis......Page 22
1 ‘The self-limiting revolution’......Page 24
2 ‘The independent life of society’......Page 44
Part II Democracy at the grass roots......Page 62
3 ‘We need to build civil society because we want freedom’......Page 64
4 The idea of civil society in the theory–practice of Latin American new social movements......Page 83
Part III The taming of the idea of civil society since 1989......Page 98
5 Civil society and theories of democratisation in Eastern Europe......Page 100
6 Civil society and theories of democratisation in Latin America1......Page 112
Part IV New alternatives?......Page 124
7 Models of global civil society......Page 126
8 ‘An echo that turns itself into many voices’......Page 141
Part V The democracy of civil society......Page 156
9 Theorising the democracy of civil society......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 179
Notes......Page 183
Bibliography......Page 188
Index......Page 199