TY - BOOK AU - Elliott,Carolyn M. ED - Indo-American Centre for International Studies (Hyderabad, India) TI - Civil society and democracy: a reader SN - 019568351X PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Civil society KW - India KW - Congresses KW - Democracy KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-483) and indexes; Civil society and democracy : a comparative review essay; Carolyn M. Elliott --; Modes of civil society; Charles Taylor --; The idea of civil society : a path to social reconstruction; Michael Walzer --; Rethinking the public sphere : a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy; Nancy Fraser --; Civil societies : liberalism and the moral uses of pluralism; Nancy L. Rosenblum --; Bowling in the Bronx : the uncivil interstices between civil and political society; Laurence Whitehead --; Beyond the nation? or within?; Partha Chatterjee --; Civil society : cultural possibility of a modern ideal; Robert Hefner --; Civil society and its avatars : what happend to freedom and democracy?; Gurpreet Mahajan --; Civil society and its institutions; Andrâe Bâeteille --; Civil society or the state : what happened to citizenship?; Dipankar Gupta --; The 'civil' and the 'political' in civil society; Neera Chandhoke --; Market reforms and the emergent constellation of civil society in China; Gordon White, Jude Howell, and Shang Xiaoyuan --; Civil society and other political possibilities in southeast Asia; Garry Rodan --; Civil society and democratization in comparative perspective : Latin America and the Middle East; Mehran Kamrava and Frank O. Mora --; Civil society and ideological contestation in India; Mark Robinson --; The coffee house and the ashram : Gandhi, civil society, and public spheres; Susanne H. Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph --; Social capital, civil society, and degrees of democracy in India; Hans Blomkvist --; Ethnic conflict and civil society : India and beyond; Ashutosh Varshney N2 - Includes selected papers from a conference convened by the IACIS in Hyderabad in Dec. 1998 ER -