Rethinking Civil Society
The Editors’ introduction to “Rethinking Civil Society.”
July 1994
Volume 5, Issue 3
Rethinking Civil Society
Rethinking Civil Society: Toward Democratic Consolidation
What makes civil society best able to help democracy emerge and endure?
Latin America's Critical Elections
Updates on Japan & Italy
Conceptions of Civil Society
A review of The Idea of Civil Society, by Adam B. Seligman and Civil Society and Political Theory, by Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato.
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Hungary, Malawi, Panama, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine.
Documents on Democracy
Excerpts from: South African President Nelson Mandela’s inaugural speech; Salvadoran president Armando Calderón Sol’s inaugural speech; a presentation speech by Yelena Bonner, the widow of Andrei D. Sakharov.
News and Notes
Sakharov Archives Established in Moscow; Conference Looks at the Future of American-Arab Relations; Open Society Institute to Fund New Research Facility; Left, Right, and Center; Conference Explores Issues of Democratization in Africa.