This text examines the concept of civil society, the role attributed to civil society in different countries, at different times and historic situations, the re

Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which representative de

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outrigh

"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing