April 11, 2003
The State of Civil Society
In recent years, an eclectic group of American scholars, policy analysts, journalists, and activists from across the political spectrum has turned toward "civil society" as the answer to today's social problems. Refusing to cede political power to market forces, most advocates of civil society argue that serious social problems -- economic dislocation, social instability, environmental degradation, political alienation -- continue to plague American society, and that meaningful
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