Civil society and democracy
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Carolyn M. Elliott.
Contributors: Elliott, Carolyn M., 1937-; Indo-American Centre for International Studies (Hyderabad, India)
Series: Themes in politics series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
Subjects: Civil society -- India -- Congresses.; Democracy -- India -- Congresses.; India -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Includes selected papers from a conference convened by the IACIS in Hyderabad in Dec. 1998.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-483) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Civil society and democracy : a comparative review essay / Carolyn M. Elliott; title: Modes of civil society / Charles Taylor; title: The idea of civil society : a path to social reconstruction / Michael Walzer; title: Rethinking the public sphere : a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy / Nancy Fraser; title: Civil societies : liberalism and the moral uses of pluralism / Nancy  L. Rosenblum; title: Bowling in the bronx : the  uncivil interstices between civil and political society / Laurence Whitehead; title: Beyond the nation? or within? / Partha Chatterjee; title: Civil society : cultural possibility of a modern ideal / Robert Hefner; title: Civil society and its avatars : what happend to freedom and democracy? / Gulpreet Mahajan; title: Civil society and its institutions / André Béteille; title: Civil society or the state : what happened to citizenship? / Dipankar Gupta; title: The 'civil' and the 'political' in civil society / Neera Chandhoke; title: Market reforms and the emergent constellation of civil society in China / Gordon White, Jude Howell, and Shang Xiaoyuan; title: Civil society and other political possibilities in southeast Asia / Garry Rodan; title: Civil society and democratization in comparative perspective : Latin America and the Middle East / Mehran Kamrava and Frank O. Mora; title: Civil society and ideological contestation in India / Mark Robinson; title: The coffee house and the ashram : Gandhi, civil society, and public spheres / Susanne H. Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph; title: Social capital, civil society, and degrees of democracy in India / Hans Blomkvist; title: Ethnic conflict and civil society : India and beyond / Ashutosh Varshney.