Civil Society Before Democracy Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Europe

by Bermeo, Nancy; Nord, Philip; Banti, Alberto; Bermeo, Nancy; Bunce, Valerie; Engelstein, Laura; Ertman, Thomas; Huard, Raymond; Kubik, Jan; Lyttleton, Adrian; Morris, Robert; Pinto, Antonio Costa; de Almeida, Pedro Tavares; Tenfelde, Klaus

• ISBN13: 9780847695492
• ISBN10: 0847695492
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-15
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Bringing together historians and political scientists, this unique collaboration compares nineteenth-century civil societies that failed to develop lasting democracies with civil societies that succeeded.

Author Biography

Pedro Tavares de Almeida is a professor of politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Lisbon Alberto Mario Banti is associate professor of history at the University of Pisa Nancy Bermeo teaches at Princeton University and writes on the causes and consequences of regime change Valerie Bunce is professor of government at Cornell University and a longtime specialist in Russian and East-Central European politics and economics Antonio Costa Pinto is professor of modern European history and politics at ISCTE, University of Lisbon Laura Engelstein is professor of history at Princeton University Thomas Ertman is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University Raymond Huard is professor emeritus at the Universite Paul Valery de Montpellier Jan Kubik is associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies at Rutgers University Adrian Lyttelton is professor of contemporary European history at the University of Pisa Robert J. Morris is professor of economic and social history at the University of Edinburgh Philip Nord is professor of history at Princeton University Klaus Tenfelde is professor of history and director of the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Selective Chronology of Nineteenth-Century Events	xi
Introduction	xiii
Philip Nord
Part I: Preludes to Failed Democracies
On Liberalism and the Emergence of Civil Society in Portugal	3	(20)
Antonio Costa Pinto
Pedro Tavares de Almeida
The Dream of Civil Society in Tsarist Russia: Law, State, and Religion	23	(20)
Laura Engelstein
Public Opinion and Associations in Nineteenth-Century Italy	43	(18)
Alberto Mario Banti
Liberalism and Civil Society in Italy: From Hegemony to Mediation	61	(22)
Adrian Lyttelton
Civil Society and the Middle Classes in Nineteenth-Century Germany	83	(28)
Klaus Tenfelde
Part II: Preludes to Durable Democracies
Civil Society, Subscriber Democracies, and Parliamentary Government in Great Britain	111	(24)
Robert J. Morris
Political Association in Nineteenth-Century France: Legislation and Practice	135	(20)
Raymond Huard
Liberalization, Democratization, and the Origins of a ``Pillarized'' Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Belgium and the Netherlands	155	(26)
Thomas Ertman
Part III: The Meaning of the Nineteenth Century Today
Between the State and Networks of ``Cousins'': The Role of Civil Society and Noncivil Associations in the Democratization of Poland	181	(28)
Jan Kubik
The Historical Origins of the East---West Divide: Civil Society, Political Society, and Democracy in Europe	209	(28)
Valerie Bunce
Civil Society after Democracy: Some Conclusions	237	(24)
Nancy Bermeo
Index	261	(16)
About the Contributors	277