ABSTRACT
Together with the market and democracy, ‘civil society’ is one of the ‘magic trio’ of developmental panaceas which emerged in the 1980s and now dominate conventional prescriptions for the ills of the 1990s. As the third element of a comprehensive reaction against the developmental states of the 1960s and 1970s, civil society is a sociological counterpart of the market in the economic sphere and to democracy in the political sphere. As such, it is a valuable analytical complement to the tired old ‘state-market’ dichotomy.
