BookDOI
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Putnam et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, revealing patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.Abstract:
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperityread more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Political Science
TL;DR: In this paper, King, Keohane and Verba argue that the same logic that is "explicated and formalized clearly in discussions of quantitative research methods" underlies-or should-the best qualitative research (p. 4).
Journal ArticleDOI
Unpacking the Strength of the State: The Utility of State Infrastructural Power
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the inability of states to provide security and establish a presence throughout their territory has left local communities vulnerable to warlords and militias and undermined the prospect of economic growth and basic social provision.
Book
Wealth into Power: The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector
TL;DR: In Wealth into Power as mentioned in this paper, Dickson challenges the notion that economic development is leading to political change in China, or that China's private entrepreneurs are helping to promote democratization, instead, they have become partners with the ruling Chinese Communist Party to promote economic growth while maintaining the political status quo.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Economic Returns of Immigrants' Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: The Case of the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined to what extent social capital can help immigrants in the Netherlands make headway on the labor market and found that bridging networks are positively associated with both employment and income, while bonding networks do not affect economic outcomes.
Journal ArticleDOI
Introduction: Social Capital in Scandinavia
Bo Rothstein,Dietlind Stolle +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how the concept of social capital relates to the Scandinavian context, and argued that the high level of Social Capital in the Scandinavian countries can be explained by (a) the high degree of economic equality, (b) the low level of patronage and corruption and (c) the predominance of universal non-discriminating welfare programmes.