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Zusatztext '...a very useful book around which to organinize an undergraduate course on civil society.'^ - Political Studies Review! Roland Axtmann! University of Aberdeen Informationen zum Autor Gideon Baker is Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. He has published articles in various journals including Contemporary Politics, Democratization and Politics. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The Parallel Polis: Central-East European Models of Civil SocietyPart II: Democracy at the Grass Roots: Latin AmericanPart III: The Taming of the Idea of Civil Society SincePart IV: New Alternatives?Part V: The Democracy of Civil Society: Theory and Practice
