TY - JOUR
T1 - Civil society, patronage and democracy
AU - Roniger, Luis
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - This article explores the relationship of contemporary analyses of civil society to research venues dealing with the transformational capacity of patronage, at work in democracies. It has two aims. The first is to offer an approach to civil society that is based on both the formal characteristics as well as the pragmatic dimensions of contemporary state-society relationships. The second is to show that within this theoretical approach, patronage appears as an integral part of many modern democratic regimes and must be treated as such in order to publicize the private domain and thus avoid the privatization of the public domain.
AB - This article explores the relationship of contemporary analyses of civil society to research venues dealing with the transformational capacity of patronage, at work in democracies. It has two aims. The first is to offer an approach to civil society that is based on both the formal characteristics as well as the pragmatic dimensions of contemporary state-society relationships. The second is to show that within this theoretical approach, patronage appears as an integral part of many modern democratic regimes and must be treated as such in order to publicize the private domain and thus avoid the privatization of the public domain.
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U2 - 10.1177/002071529403500303
DO - 10.1177/002071529403500303
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AN - SCOPUS:85173628248
SN - 0020-7152
VL - 35
SP - 207
EP - 220
JO - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
JF - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
IS - 3-4
ER -