Civil society/Researchers and theorists

The following are some of the researchers and theorists working on problems of civil society now and in the past.

Name	Title	Employment
Helmut Anheier	Professor of Social Welfare and Director of the Center for Civil Society	School of Public Affairs, UCLA
	Academic interests:
Andrew Arato	Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory	New School for Social Research
	Academic interests:
Benjamin Barber	Whitman Professor of Political Science and Director of the Whitman Center	Rutgers University
	Academic interests:
Robert Bellah	Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus	University of California at Berkeley
	Academic interests:
Jean Cohen	Professor of Political Science	Columbia University
	Academic interests:
Don E. Eberly	Author, Civic Entrepreneur, Advocate	Head of The Civil Society Project
	Academic interests:
Michael Edwards	Director of the Governance & Civil Society Unit	Ford Foundation
	Academic interests:

• Jean Bethke Elshtain
• Amatai Etzioni
• Adelbert Evers
• Adam Ferguson
• Jürgen Habermas
• Gabor Hegyesi
• Peter Dobkin Hall
• George W. F. Hegel
• Roger A. Lohmann
• Kathleen McCarthy
• Michael O'Neill
• Elinor Ostrom
• Robert Putnam
• Lester Salamon
• Michael Sandel
• David Horton Smith
• Jon Van Til
• Antonin Wagner (sociologist)
• Arthur Williamson