Michael Edwards is a writer and activist based in upstate New York, and the editor of Transformation at openDemocracy.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction - What's the Big Idea?
2 Civil Society as Associational Life
3 Civil Society as the Good Society
4 Civil Society as the Public Sphere
5 Synthesis - How Do the Different Models of Civil Society Fit Together?
6 Action - So What's to be Done?
Notes
References and Bibliography
Index