Revolution, Civil Society und Demokratie
Revolution, Civil Society, and Democracy

Summary/Abstract: It is my normatively motivated hypothesis that the theory of civil society can not only help to describe at least some types of transition processes, as we can see in Eastern Europe, but at the same time enables a perspective from which an intrinsic critique of these processes is undertaken. The aim of such criticism is to make visible the alternatives that arise in the establishment and development of new, democratic and liberal institutions. In particular, I would like to contrast firstly the option of a radical self-restraint (or "self-limiting revolution") as opposed to a (radical) revolution and secondly the democratization of civil society as opposed to an elite democracy (the latter closely related to the current circumstances) economic liberalism).

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