Uses of “Civil Society”

Issue Date October 1995
Volume 6
Issue 4
Page Numbers 169-173
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A review of Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals, by Ernest Gellner.

About the Author

Marc F. Plattner, founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy. He also serves as cochair of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Political Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University.

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Further Reading

Volume 26, Issue 4

Authoritarianism Goes Global (II): Civil Society Under Assault

Once widely celebrated, civil society today is regarded as a threat by many governments, leading them to restrict its funding and activities.

Volume 13, Issue 3

Thinking Big

A review of Arguing Comparative Politics by Alfred Stepan.

Volume 36, Issue 1

Confronting Our Common Enemy

Regime type is important, but it is the power of the fossil-fuel industry in both autocracies and democracies that is blocking the green transition globally.