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The reinvention of civil society: Trough the looking glass of democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2006

Tomaž Mastnak
Tomaž Mastnak
Affiliation:
Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts [tomaž[email protected]].
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Abstract

This article reviews how “civil society” emerged in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s as the central concept of the new democratic opposition. Through discussion of developments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the article shows how the concept of civil society was used in the struggle against communist regimes, and and how that usage facilitated its transformation into a central element of the neoliberal global agenda following the end of the Cold War.

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Research Article
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , August 2005 , pp. 323 - 355
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2005 Archives Européenes de Sociology

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