"A vibrant civil society is often portrayed in the manner of a rich
uncle: highly desirable, but the product of good fortune rather
than one's own actions. Civil society emerges from the distant
past, its features fashioned by the tectonic forces of history and
culture. In the face of such powerful and quasi-immutable
determinisms, state authorities are all but helpless: they can
little more turn a 'bad' or 'weak' civil society into a 'good' or
'strong' one than transform lead into gold. Indeed, the process is
far more likely to operate in the opposite direction, with state
intervention crushing or displacing once-vibrant civic networks. To
the extent that the state authorities can make any kind of positive
contribution, it is primarily through acts of self-negation -- by
rolling back the frontiers of the state, so that fledgling societal
and local institutions may find their place in the sun".
"The state is not necessarily the enemy of civil society,
however; nor is the absence of the state enough to foster the good
civil society. Rather, the state can -- indeed, in many instances,
must -- play an active role in forging and sustaining vibrant,
effective societal and local institutions. Just as societal and
local institutions can enhance the capacities of the state,
supportive state intervention can enhance the capacities of civil
society. Thus, the challenge is not to have more state or less
state, but rather to connect the state and civil society in
mutually beneficial ways -- to deploy state powers to create,
sustain, regulate, and readjust the good civil society".
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