Conceptions of Civil Society

Issue Date July 1994
Volume 5
Issue 3
Page Numbers 124-28
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A review of The Idea of Civil Society, by Adam B. Seligman and Civil Society and Political Theory, by Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato.

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