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But when most civil-society boosters talk about the concept, they use it to mean--arbitrarily--those groups that they like.
It recently received powerful empirical support from Robert Putnam, whose 1993 book, Making Democracy Work , documented that northern Italy is civil-society rich and southern Italy, civil-society poor.