The Practical Problems of Bridging Civil Society and the State: A Study of Round Tables in Eastern Germany(*).

Polity | December 22, 1998| | Copyright

Normative theories of civil society and of deliberative democracy face a common theoretical and practical dilemma: how to connect the informal deliberation among citizens in civil society to the formal politics of the public sphere in a way that permits the results of those informal deliberations to influence political decisions. The "round tables" that emerged in eastern Germany during and after the political transformation of 1989 provide one of the more extensive examples of an effort to create and maintain institutions designed to bridge the gap between civil society and ...

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