Paper prepared for delivery at the 1998 meeting of the Latin American Studies * Association, The Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, September 24-26, 1998. It is a revised version of the paper I presented at the conference Democracy and the Rule of Law: Institutionalizing Citizenship Rights in New Democracies, McGill University, Montreal, March 19-20, 1998, and the XIV World Congress of Sociology, July 26-August 1, 1998, Montreal. I would like to thank Manuel Antonio Garretón and Nancy Thede for comments on earlier drafts. DRAFT Not for Citation Without Permission of Authors COMMENTS WELCOME Social Inequality, Civil Society and the Limits of Citizenship in Latin America by Philip Oxhorn * Department of Political Science McGill University 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 Canada Tele: (514) 398-8970 Fax: (514) 398-1770 E-mail: oxhorn@leacock.lan.mcgill.ca