Subject(s): Democracy -- Politics and government -- Civil society and democracy -- Conceptualizing civil society : Modes of civil society, idea of civil society, rethinking the public sphere, civil societies- liberalism and moral uses of pluralism , bowling in the Bronx- uncivil interstices between civil and political society, beyond the nation or within, civil society- cultural possibility of a modern ideal, civil society and its avtars- freedom and democracy, civil society and institutions, civil society and its institutions, civil society or the state, civil and political in civil society -- Empirical investigations : Market reforms and emergent constellation of civil society in China, civil society and other political possibilities in southeast Asia, civil society and democratization in comparative perspective, civil society and ideological contestation in India, Gandhi, civil society and public spheres, social capital, civil society and degrees of democracy in India, ethnic conflict and civil society