Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Civil Society and the Social Construction of Citizenship -- Chapter 2 Controlled Inclusion and the Elusive Goal of Citizenship as Agency -- Chapter 3 Dictatorship or Democracy: The Rise of Neopluralism and Citizenship as Consumption -- Chapter 4 Testing the Limits of Citizenship: Chile's Democratic Transition -- Chapter 5 The Failure of Citizenship: Bolivia's Popular Participation Law -- Chapter 6 The Promise of Citizenship: Civil Society and Mexico's Transition to Democracy -- Chapter 7 Latin America's Democratic Crossroads: The Challenge of Making Civil Society Relevant -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher