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Making democracy work
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For example, this paper argued that true democracy connotes co-operation and interdependence, a definite responsibility for each citizen if there is to be any democracy, and there must be a general awakening -or else!Abstract:
All too thoughtlessly and all too commonly democracy has come to be regarded as being a one-way proposition — just an intangible “something” which somehow automatically establishes and guards individual freedom, individual rights, and individual privileges. That this careless point of view may be understandable makes it no less tragic and at least potentially devastating. True democracy connotes co-operation and interdependence — a definite responsibility for each citizen if there is to be any democracy. There must be a general awakening — “or else!”read more
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Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
Stephen Knack,Philip Keefer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used indicators of trust and civic norms from the World Values Surveys for a sample of 29 market economies and found that membership in formal groups is not associated with trust or with improved economic performance.
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The Network Structure Of Social Capital
TL;DR: A review of argument and evidence on the connection between social networks and social capital can be found in this paper, where the authors focus on the network mechanisms responsible for social capital effects rather than trying to integrate across metaphors of social capital loosely tied to distant empirical indicators.
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Governance as theory: five propositions
TL;DR: G. Stoker and D. King as mentioned in this paper have published two books: Rethinking Local Democracy and Privatisation of Urban Services in Europe, 1996 and 1997, respectively.
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Who Trusts Others
TL;DR: The authors found that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences; ii) belonging to a group that historically felt discriminated against, such as minorities (blacks in particular) and women; iii) being economically unsuccessful in terms of income and education; iv) living in a racially mixed community and/or in one with a high degree of income disparity.
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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied what determines group formation and the degree of participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity, and found that those individuals who express views against racial mixing are less prone to participate in groups the more racially heterogeneous their community is.