Civil society and democratic theory : alternative voices / Gideon Baker
- Author
- Baker, Gideon, 1973-
- Published
- London : Routledge, 2002.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 191 pages).
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Chapter Introduction -- part PART I The parallel polis: Central-East European models of civil society -- chapter 1 'The self-limiting revolution': Polish voices -- chapter 2 'The independent life of society': Czechoslovakian and / Hungarian voices -- part PART II Democracy at the grass roots: Latin American models of civil society -- chapter 3 'We need to build civil society because we want freedom': the Latin American left's discovery of civil society -- chapter 4 The idea of civil society in the theory-practice of Latin American new social movements -- part Part III The taming of the idea of civil society since 1989 -- chapter 5 Civil society and theories of democratisation in Eastern Europe -- chapter 6 Civil society and theories of democratisation in Latin America1 -- part Part IV New alternatives? -- chapter 7 Models of global civil society -- chapter 8 'An echo that turns itself into many voices': Zapatismo and civil society as revolutionary practice -- part PART V The democracy of civil society: theory and practice -- chapter 9 Theorising the democracy of civil society.
- Summary
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 020316699X (electronic bk.)
9780203166994 (electronic bk.)
9780415254182
0415254183
1138970808
9781138970809
1134524064
9781134524068
1280053305
9781280053306
0415254183 (Cloth) - Digital File Characteristics
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- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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