Download or read book Administering Civil Society written by Mark Neocleous and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By arguing that state power must be understood through its law and administration continuum, and that civil society must be understood through its administration by the state, this book offers an original and highly provocative contribution to social and political thought, challenging previous Marxist theories of the state and reasserting the importance of the state-civil society distinction to contemporary Marxism.