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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
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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
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A multilevel analysis of social capital and self-rated health: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey.
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Social mobility and social capital in contemporary Britain.
Yaojun Li,Mike Savage,Alan Warde +2 more
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The Ingenuity Gap: Can Poor Countries Adapt to Resource Scarcity?
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Still different after all these years: Solidarity behavior in East and West Germany
TL;DR: This article found that East Germans show consistently less solidarity than West Germans; there has been no convergence in the 20 years after the reunification and they hypothesize that this is due to complementarities involved in individual social behavior and the necessity to coordinate on social norms on the society level.
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Political Corruption and Social Trust: An Experimental Approach
Bo Rothstein,Daniel Eek +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two parallel experiments were conducted in two countries where the levels of corruption and social trust are very different and the main question addressed in this paper is how the great variation in the level of social trust in different countries can be explained.