| Contents |
Introduction : civic engagement and Atlantic relations / Josef Janning, Charles Kupchan, Dirk Rumberg -- American society in european perspective / Seymour Martin Lipset -- Decline of community? Comparative observations on Germany and the United States / Hans Joas -- Social capital in America : civil society and civic trust / William A. Galston -- Metamorphosis to civil society : the european case / Jörg Ueltzhöffer -- Community, civil society, and social ecology / Richard Madsen -- Civil society : getting beyond the rhetoric. A framework for political understanding / Benjamin R. Barber -- The "Bürgergesellschaft" : scope for reforming the welfare state? / Warnfried Dettling -- In search of common ground : transatlantic relations and civil society / Felix Philipp Lutz -- Civic engagement and the future of the european welfare state / Konrad Hummel -- Firming the foundations : constitutionalizing and memorializing the free world complex / Daniel Deudney -- Civil society - skeptical comments on a familiar debate and two hopeful speculations / Peter Siebenmorgen. |
