Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America

1. Introduction: Civil Society and Democracy: The Latin American Case
Carlos H. Waisman, Richard Feinberg, Leon Zamosc

Part I. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives

2. Autonomy, Self-Regulation, and Democracy: Tocquevillean-Gellnerian Perspectives on Civil Society and the Bifurcated State in Latin America
Carlos H. Waisman

3. Civil Society in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: Between Democratic Deepening, Social Fragmentation, and State Crisis
Leonardo Avritzer

4. Conceptualizing Civil Society from the Bottom Up: A Political Economy Perspective
Philip Oxhorn

Part II. Country Case Studies

5. Citizenship and Civil Society in Renascent Argentina
Isidoro Cheresky

6. Argentina after the Nineties: Changes in Social Structure and Political Behavior
Manuel Mora Araujo

7. Sem Reforma Agrária, Não Há Democracia: Deepening Democracy and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Wendy Wolford

8. Civil Society and Political Decay in Venezuela
Daniel H. Levine

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Latin American Politics, Latin American Culture, Diplomacy, International Relations, Democracy