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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827721603321

Autore

Baker Gideon <1973->

Titolo

Civil society and democratic theory : alternative voices / / Gideon Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-138-97080-8

1-134-52406-4

1-280-05330-5

0-203-16699-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Routledge innovations in political theory

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Civil society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The parallel polis: Central-East European models of  civil society; 'The self-limiting revolution': Polish voices; 'The independent life of society': Czechoslovakian and  Hungarian voices; Democracy at the grass roots: Latin American models  of civil society; 'We need to build civil society because we want freedom':  the Latin American left's discovery of civil society; The idea of civil society in the theory-practice of Latin  American new social movements; The taming of the idea of civil society since 1989

Civil society and theories of democratisation in  Eastern EuropeCivil society and theories of democratisation in  Latin America; New alternatives?; Models of global civil society; 'An echo that turns itself into many voices': Zapatismo  and civil society as revolutionary practice; The democracy of civil society: theory and practice; Theorising the democracy of civil society; Conclusion: the democracy of civil society as practice; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice from Eastern Europe and Latin America (including the



Zapatistas in Mexico), and from visions of global civil society too, this book is uniquely positioned to consider the questions posed by these alternative voices for democratic theory and practice. * Are there alternatives to the liberal