Bowling en el Bronx: los intersticios inciviles entre la sociedad civil y la sociedad política

Abstract

This artick discusses theproblem ofthe relations between civil society anddemocmtization processes. Zts startingpoint is the discrepancy that exista between the universal conceptualization of modernpolitical society and the more restricted or rigid notions of civil society. The interstices that exist between these two social forma encourage theproduction of multiple variations of "incivility". The author arrives at the conclusion that the quality and the stability of the new democracies, as well as the consolidatedpolyarquies, are dependent on the solidity and structure of civil society, which in turn are characteristics that are heavily conditioned by the nature and the force of the challenges that come from the "uncivil interstices"