"Feinberg, Waisman and Zamosc are to be commended. Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America provides state-of-the art analyses by leading US and Latin American scholars who combine theoretical sophistication with well-executed case studies of civic activism and the new politics of citizenship in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. This volume will be obligatory reading for sociologists and political scientists as well as for others interested in the role of social movements in the emergence of more vibrant and participatory democracies in Latin America."--William C. Smith, University of Miami, editor of Latin American Politics and Society