Dissident writings as political theory on civil society and democracy

Review of International Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 343-364

  Glasius, Marlies ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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References (104)

1. See for instance Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: in a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Warsaw (London: Chatto & Windus, 1990);
2. Grzegorz Ekiert, The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996);
3. Jan Kubik, The Power of Symbols against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1994);
4. Guillermo A. O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter and Laurence Whitehead (eds), Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative perspectives (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986);
5. Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991);
6. Alfred Stepan (ed.), Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
7. Václav Havel, 'The Power of the Powerless', in Václav Havel et al., The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central-Eastern Europe (Hutchinson: London 1985;
8. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 'On the Characterization of Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America', in David Collier (ed.), The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. 32.
9. George Konrad, Antipolitics (London: Quartet Books, 1984), p. 94.
10. Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner Without a Name; Cell Without a Number (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981), p. 94.
11. 5Adam Michnik, 'A New Evolutionism', in Adam Michnik, Letters from Prison and Other Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press 1985, essay first published in samizdat 1979), p. xix.
12. Ariel Dorfman, 'Epilogue: October 1989', in Susan Meiselas (ed.), Chile from Within (New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1990), p. 121.
13. Kazimierz Brandys, A Warsaw Diary 1978-1981 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1983), p. 118.
14. Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 34.
15. Brandys, Warsaw Diary, p. 94.
16. Václav Benda, in Václav Benda et al. (eds), 'Parallel Polis, or an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe: An Inquiry', Social Research, 55:1-2 (1988), p. 218.
17. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 112.
18. Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 67.
19. Dorfman, 'A Rural Chilean Legend Comes True', New York Times (18 February 1985)
20. Reproduced in Chile from Within, p. 105.
21. Havel, Power of the Powerless, pp. 38-9.
22. Timerman, Prisoner, pp. 5-6.
23. Francisco Weffort, 'Why Democracy?', in Alfred Stepan (ed.), Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989; essay written in 1983), p. 347.
24. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 203.
25. Brandys, Warsaw Diary, p. 43;
26. see also, J. M. Bates, 'The "Second Circulation 1976-1989 Poland"', in Derek Jones (ed.), Censorship: A World Encyclopedia (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000).
27. Alejandro Diago, Hebe Bonafini. Memoria y esperanza (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dialectica, 1988), p. 119.
28. Diago, Bonafini, p. 122.
29. Ulises Gorini, La Rebelión de las Madres. Historia de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Tomo I (1976 - 1983) (Buenos Aires [etc.]: Norma, 2006), pp. 186-7.
30. Diago, Bonafini, p. 123;
31. Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora, Memoria, Verdad y Justicia, a los 30 años X los treinta mil: Voces de la Memoria (Buenos Aires: Baobab, 2006), pp. 31-2.
32. Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 40;
33. see also Brandys, Warsaw Diary, p. 56.
34. Timerman, Prisoner, p. 28.
35. Dorfman, 'Reports from the Heart of the NO', Village Voice (4 October 1988)
36. Reproduced in Chile from Within, p. 116.
37. Charter 77 Declaration (1 January 1977), available at: {http://libpro.cts.cuni.cz/charta/docs/declaration-of-charter-77.pdf} last accessed on 11 June 2010.
38. Benda et al., 'Parallel Polis', pp. 211-46.
39. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 182.
40. Jadwiga Staniszkis, Poland's Self-Limiting Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), p. 50.
41. Dorfman, 'Exile's Return', Village Voice (6 October 1987)
42. Reproduced in Chile from Within, p. 113;
43. Manuel Antonio Garreton, 'Popular Mobilization and the Military Regime in Chile: The Complexities of the Invisible Transition', in Susan Eckstein (ed.), Power and Popular Protext: Latin American Social Movements (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), pp. 269, 275.
44. Timerman, Prisoner, p. 17.
45. Weffort, 'Why Democracy?', p. 341.
46. Madres de Plaza de Mayo, 'Declaración de Principios' (22 August 1979), available at: {http://www.madresfundadoras.org.ar/pagina/ declaracindeprincipiosao1979/24} last accessed on 11 June 2010.
47. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 92.
48. Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 71;
49. see also Milan Simecka in 'Parallel Polis', p. 225.
50. Dorfman, 'In Chile, A Show of Hands', New York Times (23 November 1985)
51. Reproduced in Chile from Within, pp. 108-9.
52. Dorfman, 'A Hopeful Parable of Doom', Philadelphia Inquirer (13 March 1983)
53. Reproduced in Ariel Dorfman, Other Septembers, Many Americas; Selected Provocations 1980-2004 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004) pp. 146-50.
54. See for instance Neera Chandhoke, 'The Limits of Global Civil Society', in Marlies Glasius, Mary Kaldor and Helmut Anheier (eds), Global Civil Society 2002 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 36-7;
55. John Keane, 'Eleven Theses on Markets and Civil Society', Journal of Civil Society, 1:1 (2005), p. 26.
56. Benda, 'Parallel Polis', p. 217.
57. Simecka, 'Parallel Polis', p. 222.
58. Dienstbier, 'Parallel Polis', p. 230.
59. Manuel Antonio de la Parra, 'Fragments of a Self-Portrait', in Chile from Within, pp. 14-5.
60. Madres, Declaracion and Janos Vargha, 'Acceptance speech', Right Livelihood Awards (9 December 1985), available at: {http://www.rightlivelihood. org/vargha-speech.html} last accessed on 11 June 2010.
61. Václav Cerny in Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 133.
62. Staniszkis, Self-limiting Revolution, pp. 17, 23.
63. Havel, Power of the Powerless, pp. 75, 73.
64. Dorfman, 'Exile's Return', p. 114.
65. Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 76.
66. Weffort, Why Democracy?, p. 342.
67. Timerman, Prisoner, p. 21.
68. See for instance Konrad, Antipolitics, pp. 116-24;
69. Also Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 89.
70. Brandys, Warsaw Diary, p. 83.
71. Jose Serra, 'Three Mistaken Theses Regarding the Connection between Industrialization and Authoritarian Regimes', in David Collier (ed.), The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), pp. 99-163;
72. Cardoso, 'On the Characterization';
73. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 'Associated-Dependent Development and Democratic Theory', in Alfred Stepan (ed.), Democratizing Brazil: problems of transition and consolidation (New York: Oxford University Press 1989, essay written in 1983), pp. 299-326.
74. Vargha, 'Acceptance speech'.
75. Timerman, Prisoner.
76. See for instance Dorfman, 'A Hopeful Parable';
77. Dorfman, 'Martin Luther King: A Latin American Perspective', Irish Times (20 August 2003)
78. Reproduced in Dorfman, Other Septembers, pp. 101-6.
79. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 212.
80. Dorfman, 'Pinochet Has Reaped What He Has Sown', New York Times (8 September 1986)
81. Reproduced in Meiselas, Chile from Within (New York), p. 111.
82. Brandys, Warsaw Diary, p. 256.
83. Michnik, 'New Evolutionism', pp. 136-8
84. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 198.
85. Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 82.
86. Benda, 'Parallel Polis', p. 219.
87. Garreton, 'Popular Mobilization'.
88. Judit Vasxheiyi, 'Acceptance speech', Right Livelihood Awards (9 December 1985), available at: {http://www.rightlivelihood.org/vargha-speech.html}, last accessed on 14 June 2010.
89. It barely features for instance in Arend Lijphart, Democracy in Plural Societies: a Comparative Exploration (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977)
90. Robert Dahl, Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).
91. Weffort, Why Democracy?, p. 349.
92. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 198.
93. Weffort, Why Democracy?, p. 329.
94. Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 52.
95. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 34.
96. Garreton, 'Popular Mobilization', pp. 271-2.
97. Cardoso, 'Associated-Dependent Development', p. 314.
98. Konrad, Antipolitics, p. 137.
99. Patricia Chuchryk, 'Feminist Anti-Authoritarian Politics: The Role of Women's Organizations and the Chilean Transition to Democracy', in Jane Jaquette (ed.), The Women's Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989), p. 182.
100. Havel, Power of the Powerless, p. 93.
101. Cardoso, 'Associated-Dependent Development', pp. 311-4.
102. Dienstbier, 'Parallel Polis', p. 230.
103. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, 1951/1973), pp. 389-92.
104. Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, trans. and ed. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (London: Lawrence and Wishart 1971), p. 238.