There is no complete agreement on the definition of the term. Nevertheless, it is suffice to say that that there is one commonly accepted version of the term. "Civil society" is an intermediary entity standing between the private sphere (individual and family life) and the state. It is an area of public activity that involves citizens acting collectively to express their interests, passions, and ideas, to exchange information, achieve mutual goals, make demands on the state, and hold state officials accountable. To put it in a nutshell, civil society, in this commonly accepted version is a "dense network of associations." The realm of civil society encompasses a vast array of groups and associations, formal and informal, from private voluntary associations, neighborhood committees, social clubs, communities, interest groups, unions, social movements to philanthropic enterprises of all sorts Now, both theorists and policy makers everywhere view this field of civil society as an effective remedy for democracy. According to Larry Diamond, in his synthesis of ideas on the role of civil society in democratic society, civil society can play a significant role both in "building and consolidating democracy For Guillermo O'Donne and Philip C. Schmitter who studied process of transitions to democracy, both authors suggest that civil society is an agent of democratization. They argue that the transition from authoritarian rule entails not only the triumph of "soft-liners" over "hard liners" but