These six perspectives on society/state relations are not mutually exclusive
nor do they necessarily compete with each other. As will become clear, it is
possible to hold to a number of these views at the same time. What they do
represent are diVerent ways of answering the question: ‘‘what is important or
interesting in the relationship between civil society and the state?’’ In each
case we identify the empirical questions that are correlative to the theoretical
articulation of this relationship