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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions In Modern Italy

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The article was published on 1993-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 14679 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy & Work (electrical).

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Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on whether the Chinese Communist Party is willing and able to adapt to the economic environment its reforms are bringing about, and whether China's "red capitalists", private entrepreneurs who also belong to the communist party, are likely to be agents of political change.
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Co-production: The State of the Art in Research and the Future Agenda

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the state of the art in research on co-production of public services and propose some directions for future research: greater methodological diversity and the need for empirical and comparative research with a specific attention for theoretical advancement.
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Social Capital and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of Social Capital on Individual Giving and Volunteering

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of social capital on philanthropy and found that social capital is a determinant of personal giving and volunteering in religious giving, secular giving, and volunteering.
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Neighborhood differences in social capital: a compositional artifact or a contextual construct?

TL;DR: Examination of socioeconomic and demographic attributes that systematically correlate with individual perception of social capital and the extent to which such attributes account for neighborhood differences in social capital suggest that significant neighborhood differences remain in individual perceptions of trust, substantiating the notion of socialCapital as a true contextual construct.
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Individualism-Collectivism and Social Capital

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reanalyzed available data on the relationship between individualism-collectivism and social capital within one country (the United States) and across 42 countries and found that states with a high level of social capital (higher degree of civic engagement in political activity, where people spend more time with their friends and believe that most people can be trusted) were more individualistic.