Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.; Routledge and The Graduate School for Social Research/The Centre for Social Studies
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780203027837
Subjects: Post-communism; Civil society; Social Science; Political Science
Description: Explores the idea of civil society and how it is being implemented in Eastern Europe. Relating the concept of civil society in Eastern Europe to sociological theories, this book makes international comparisons where appropriate. It also discusses particular aspects of civil society, and examines the difficulties of establishing civil society.
Notes: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Civil Society: Notes on the Revival of a Concept; 3. Civil Society and its Discontents; 4. Comments on Reichardt and Scaff; 5. Democracy, Inequality and State Crisis; 6. State-society Relations; 7. The Middle Class in Transition from Communism to Capitalist Society; 8. Transforming Leviathan in South Eastern Europe; 9. Bringing "Class" and "Interest Group" Back in; 10. Explaining the Transformation from State Socialism.

11. The Climate of Globalization12. Is there an Organisational Base for Civil Society in Central Eastern Europe?; 13. Weber, Eastern Europe, and Civil Society; 14. How to be a Sociologist and a Humanist?; 15. Hidden Actors, Overlooked Dimensions and Blind Intellectuals; 16. The Enchantment of the Social; 17. Was "Real Existing Socialism" Merely a Premature form of Rule by Experts?; 18. Democratic Consolidation in Third Wave Democracies; 19. Building Post-communist States.

20. Similarities and Differences in the Social Reality and Sociological Analysis of Russia Compared with Poland and Hungary21. Third-way Politics, Sceptical Voters, Insecure Societies; 22. National Myths, Pro-socialist Capitalism, and the Old and New Mythmakers; 23. Civil Society; 24. Institutional Modernization; 25. Threats to Democracy; 26. Building Civil Society and Democracy East of the Elbe; 27. Democracy, Memory and Forgiving; Index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Civil Society: Notes on the Revival of a Concept; 3. Civil Society and its Discontents; 4. Comments on Reichardt and Scaff; 5. Democracy, Inequality and State Crisis; 6. State-society Relations; 7. The Middle Class in Transition from Communism to Capitalist Society; 8. Transforming Leviathan in South Eastern Europe; 9. Bringing "Class" and "Interest Group" Back in; 10. Explaining the Transformation from State Socialism.