Beyond strong and weak: rethinking postdictatorship civil societies

Riley, Dylan; Fernández González, Juan Jesús

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Beyond strong and weak: rethinking postdictatorship civil societies

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales	es
dc.contributor.author	Riley, Dylan
dc.contributor.author	Fernández González, Juan Jesús
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-28T13:44:44Z
dc.date.available	2022-06-28T13:44:44Z
dc.date.issued	2014-09-01
dc.description.abstract	What is the impact of dictatorships on postdictatorial civil societies? Bottom-up theories suggest that totalitarian dictatorships destroy civil society while authoritarian ones allow for its development. Top-down theories of civil society suggest that totalitarianism can create civil societies while authoritarianism is unlikely to. This article argues that both these perspectives suffer from a one-dimensional understanding of civil society that conflates strength and autonomy. Accordingly we distinguish these two dimensions and argue that totalitarian dictatorships tend to create organizationally strong but heteronomous civil societies, while authoritarian ones tend to create relatively autonomous but organizationally weak civil societies. We then test this conceptualization by closely examining the historical connection between dictatorship and civil society development in Italy (a posttotalitarian case) and Spain da postauthoritarian one). Our article concludes by reflecting on the implications of our argument for democratic theory, civil society theory, and theories of regime variation.	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Riley, D., & Fernández, J. J. (2014). Beyond Strong and Weak: Rethinking Postdictatorship Civil Societies. American Journal of Sociology, 20 (2), pp. 432-503.	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1086/678272
dc.identifier.issn	0002-9602
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	432	es
dc.identifier.publicationissue	2	es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	503	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY	en
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	120	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35317
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000016519
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	The University of Chicago Press	es
dc.rights	© 2014 by The University of Chicago.	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Sociología	es
dc.subject.other	Comparative perspective	en
dc.subject.other	Political community	en
dc.subject.other	Democracy	en
dc.subject.other	Spain	en
dc.subject.other	Organizations	es
dc.subject.other	Tocqueville	es
dc.subject.other	Membership	en
dc.subject.other	Parties	en
dc.subject.other	Systems	en
dc.subject.other	Reforms	en
dc.title	Beyond strong and weak: rethinking postdictatorship civil societies	en
dc.type	research article	*
dc.type.hasVersion	VoR	*
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