The implicit model that most theorists of civil society work with is drawn from the particular historical experience and developmental sequences of the West, especially western Europe (Ehrenberg 1999). In that model, the creation of civil society required first the separation of private and public spheres of authority. In the case of Europe, the creation of public authority separate from in some sense "private" or at least personal, to the absolutist state in which the retinue. The creation of distinct official and private realms left room eventually for the rise of civil society, that could demand specific protections and ance of a sphere