Civil society
Civil society: the realm of voluntary collective organization between family, state, and market.
Civil society is the realm of voluntary collective organization between family, state, and market: associations, NGOs, unions, churches, clubs, cooperatives, foundations, independent media. Hegel theorized it as intermediate sphere; Tocqueville described it in Democracy in America as vital for republican liberty; Habermas linked it to public opinion; Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone, 2000) showed its decline correlates with democratic erosion.
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