John A. Hall lists 5 distinct enemies of civil society:Despotism: this is this idea of fear which discourages any type of group that's formed between society and government.Revival of the tradition of ...
Jürgen Habermas said that the public sphere encourages rational will-formation; it is a sphere of rational and democratic social interaction. Habermas argues that even though society was representati ...
From a historical perspective, the actual meaning of the concept of civil society has changed twice from its original, classical form. The first change occurred after the French Revolution, the second ...
Critics and activists currently often apply the term civil society to the domain of social life which needs to be protected against globalization, and to the sources of resistance thereto, because it ...
Constitutional economics is a field of economics and constitutionalism which describes and analyzes the specific interrelationships between constitutional issues and functioning of the economy includi ...
The literature on relations between civil society and democratic political society have their roots in early classical liberal writings like those of Alexis de Tocqueville. However they were developed ...
The term 'civil society' goes back to Aristotle's phrase koinōnía politik? (κοινων?α πολιτικ?), occurring in his Politics where it refers to a ‘community’, commensurate with the G ...
The term civil society has a range of meanings in contemporary usage. It is sometimes considered to include the family and the private sphere, and referred to as the "third sector" of society, distinc ...
