Civil Society 2.0?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba

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1 GIGA Research Programme: Legitimacy and Efficiency of Political Systems Civil Society 2.0?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba Bert Hoffmann No 156 January 2011 GIGA Working Papers serve to disseminate the research results of work in progress prior to publicaton to encourage the exchange of ideas and academic debate. Inclusion of a paper in the Working Papers series does not constitute publication and should not limit publication in any other venue. Copyright remains with the authors.

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3 - Debating Cuban Exceptionalism, London/New York: Palgrave, 2007 (edited with Laurence Whitehead).

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5 1. Introduction 2. Civil Society in the 1990s: The Quest for Associational Autonomy Along with its Limits 3. Enter the Internet: The Public Sphere in Transnational Times 4. Asserting Citizenship: The Public Sphere and Civil Society in the Internet Era 5. From Voice via Web to Civil Society Action? 6. Conclusions

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