Articles:

• The Electronic Policy Network - "The Civic Society Debate" New name for EPN - "Moving Ideas"
• Robert D. Putnam, "The Strange Disappearance of Civic America," Winter, 1996
• Robert D. Putnam, "The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life," Spring, 1993
• Robert Putnam - "Bowling Alone" - Journal of Democracy 6:1
• Benjamin R. Barber, "Globalizing Democracy," September 11, 2000
• "Social Capital and Civil Society" - Francis Fukuyama
• Chris Mooney,   "The 'Third Place' Way"
• Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady: "The Big Tilt: Participatory Inequality in America," May-June, 1997
• CPN - Civic Innovation and American Democracy
• Garry Willis, "Putnam's America," July 17, 2000
• Kay Lehman Schlozman, "Did Working Women Kill the PTA?," September 11, 2000
• Michael Schudson, Theda Skocpol, Richard M. Valelly, and Robert Putnam: "The Tocqueville Files," Mar-Apr, 1996
• "Mapping Mass Political Conflict and Civil Society"

Background Information on and Definitions of Civil Society:

• Definition of Social Capital - From "Bowling Alone," by Robert Putnam
• Civic Practices Network (CPN) - "Social Capital"
• CPN - "Civil Society"

Civil Society Course Syllabi:

• CPN Tools -- Syllabi
• CPN - "Organizing People, Power, Change" Syllabus
• CPN - "Organizing Communities/Public Policy" Syllabus
• SOC 4100/5100 Community Organizing and Development
• "A Force More Powerful" - In the Classroom

Manuals and Monographs:

• The New Life of the Liberal State
• CPN Tools - Civic Dictionary
• CPN Tools - Manuals
• CPN - New Citizenship

Civil Society Web Sites:

• Center for Civil Society Studies   The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies
• Civic Practices Network (CPN)
• Common Wealth: "Nonprofits, Philanthropy, and Civil Society" A Project of the American Prospect
• bettertogether.org
• Civil society
• Center for Civil Society International friends-partners.org

Community-Building Resources:

• Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
• Community Toolkit: Introduction Benton Foundation
• Developing a Civic Culture by Ralph Nader
• CPN Tools - Civic Dictionary
• Tactical "How-To" Guide From an anarchist web site
• CLPI Homepage Independent Sector's Nonpofit Lobbying Resources
• Civil Society - Programs Counterpart.org
• Governance and Civil Society Ford Foundation
• Eric Digest - Education for Engagement in Civil Society and Government
• The Citizens Handbook Table of Contents
  • The future of local government The Citizens Handbook
  • Models of Neighborhood Participation The Citizens Handbook