Civil society and democracy : a reader /

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Imprint:New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description:xi, 508 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Themes in politics series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5208561
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Other authors / contributors:Elliott, Carolyn M., 1937-
ISBN:0195661966
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-483) and indexes.
Summary:Contributed articles on civil society and democracy with special reference to India.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Civil Society and Democracy: A Comparative Review Essay / Carolyn M. Elliott
  • 2. Modes of Civil Society / Charles Taylor
  • 3. The Idea of Civil Society: A Path to Social Reconstruction / Michael Walzer
  • 4. Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy / Nancy Fraser
  • 5. Civil Societies: Liberalism and the Moral Uses of Pluralism / Nancy L. Rosenblum
  • 6. Bowling in the Bronx: The Uncivil Interstices between Civil and Political Society / Laurence Whitehead
  • 7. Beyond the Nation? or Within? / Partha Chatterjee
  • 8. Civil Society: Cultural Possibility of a Modern Ideal / Robert Hefner
  • 9. Civil Society and its Avtars: What Happened to Freedom and Democracy? / Gurpreet Mahajan
  • 10. Civil Society and its Institutions / Andre Beteille
  • 11. Civil Society or the State: What Happened to Citizenship? / Dipankar Gupta
  • 12. The 'Civil' and the 'Political' in Civil Society / Neera Chandhoke
  • 13. Market Reforms and the Emergent Constellation of Civil Society in China / Gordon White, Jude Howell and Shang Xiaoyuan
  • 14. Civil Society and Other Political Possibilities in Southeast Asia / Garry Rodan
  • 15. Civil Society and Democratization in Comparative Perspective: Latin America and the Middle East / Mehran Kamrava and Frank O. Mora
  • 16. Civil Society and Ideological Contestation in India / Mark Robinson
  • 17. The Coffee House and the Ashram: Gandhi, Civil Society, and Public Spheres / Susanne H. Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph
  • 18. Social Capital, Civil Society, and Degrees of Democracy in India / Hans Blomkvist
  • 19. Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond / Ashutosh Varshney.