Abstract
These are heady days for civil society. From Moscow to Montevideo, a vibrant and robust network of civic organizations is being celebrated as the cure to virtually all the ills of the contemporary world. Little appears to be beyond the reach of civil society's virtuous hands. In recent years, civil society has been posited as the preferred vehicle to replace corrupt and incompetent states, deliver social goods and services, fortify civil and political liberties, promote economic prosperity, restructure outmoded economies, and consolidate fragile and fledging democratic institutions.' Among these claims, the last one is the most trumpeted and widespread. Operating from the assumption that a vibrant and robust civil society is either a prerequisite or a requirement for charting a successful passage from dictatorship to democracy, the strengthening of civil society has become a priority for a large cast of actors engaged in the
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