Rethinking Civil Society: Toward Democratic Consolidation

Issue Date July 1994
Volume 5
Issue 3
Page Numbers 4-17
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About the Author

Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy.

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