After the Soviet empire: civil society in democratizing states

Article Abstract:

Civil society refers to the structures that mediate between a state and its citizens, including churches, labor unions, businesses and pressure groups. The failure of post-Communist countries to agree on what constitutes civil society is one reason for their citizens' lack of political awareness.

Representative government and representation, Representative government

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Civil is not good enough

Article Abstract:

Politicians wanted to revivify the American civil society because of the growing social problems. However, the civic society requires a deeper cultivation of values and beliefs to understand the social issues.

Civics

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The family in America: a call to civil society

Article Abstract:

The US is consuming, but not replacing, the civil and moral resources that make its democracy possible. A democratic civil society, based on moral truth, is the basis on which human beings can flourish.

Democracy

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