Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America

Introduction Civil Society and Democracy: the Latin American Case - Carlos H. Waisman, Richard Feinberg& Leon Zamosc Part I: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives Autonomy, Self-regulation and Democracy: Tocquevillean-Gellnerian Perspectives on Civil Society and the Bifurcated State in Latin America - Carlos H. Waisman Civil Society in Latin America in the Twenty-first Century: Democratic Deepening, Social Fragmentation and State Crisis - Leonardo Avritzer Conceptualizing Civil Society from the Bottom Up: A Political Economy Perspective - Philip Oxhorn Part II: Country Case Studies Citizenship and Civil Society in Renascent Argentina - Isidoro Cheresky Argentina after the Nineties: Changes in Social Structure and Political Behavior - Manuel Mora y Araujo " Sem Reforma Agrária, Não Ha Democracia ": The Struggle over Access to Land and Deepening Democracy in Brazil - Wendy Wolford Civil Society and Political Decay in Venezuela - Daniel H. Levine