The book investigates the intersection of citizenship, civil society, and development in today’s global world. The multi-disciplinary collection considers the

This book shows how legal, political, social, and participation rights are systematically related to liberties, claims and immunities.

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

'The sort of critical awareness necessary to actually enrich discussions of civil society, rather than contribute to its elusiveness, pervades through the book.

Interest in the concept of civil society has undergone a remarkable renaissance in the 1990s. It is currrently seen as a potential tool to overcome some of the