Item Description: | Contents: 1. In Search of Civil Society / John A. Hall -- 2. The Importance of Being Modular / Ernest Gellner -- 3. Civil Society in Communist China? Private Business and Political Alliance, 1989 / David L. Wank -- 4. The Possibility of Civil Society: Traditions, Character and Challenges / Victor Perez-Diaz -- 5. The Nature of Social Ties and the Future of Postcommunist Society: Poland after Solidarity / Wlodzimierz Wesolowski -- 6. Civic Nation, Civil Society, Civil Religion / Christopher G. A. Bryant -- 7. Philosophers' Models on the Carpathian Lowlands / Chris Hann -- 8. Post-Marxism, No Friend of Civil Society / Hudson Meadwell -- 9. Animadversions upon Civil Society and Civic Virtue in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century / Adam B. Seligman -- 10. Modernity, Late Development and Civil Society / Nicos Mouzelis -- 11. From Controlled Inclusion to Coerced Marginalization: The Struggle for Civil Society in Latin America / Philip Oxhorn -- 12. Civil Society and Islam / Serif |