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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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Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s
TL;DR: Bleich et al. as mentioned in this paper provided the first detailed historical exploration of race policy development in these two countries and argued against common wisdom that attributes policy outcomes to the role of powerful interest groups or to the constraints of existing institutions, instead emphasizing the importance of frames as widelyheld ideas that propelled policymaking in different directions.
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The economics of the environment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the interface between rural poverty and the environmental resource base in poor countries and draw a contrast between geographically localized resources and the global commons, and the role of property rights, both private and collective, and their implied resource allocation mechanisms.
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Social capital and disaster preparedness among low income Mexican Americans in a disaster prone area.
Belinda M. Reininger,Mohammad H. Rahbar,MinJae Lee,Zhongxue Chen,Sartaj R. Alam,Jennifer Pope,Barbara Adams +6 more
TL;DR: Social capital's presence among a low income population living in a hurricane prone area is characterized and a higher prevalence of preparedness is found among individuals who reported the highest perception of fairness compared to those who reported lowest perceptions of fairness.
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Social networks and information access: implications for agricultural extension in a rice farming community in northern vietnam
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how social networks function as assets for individuals and households in the rural areas of developing countries and influence access to information and benefits from research and development.
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The Role of Social Capital in Development: Social capital and poverty: a microeconomic perspective
Abstract: Social capital is commonly studied from the perspective of sociology or political science. This chapter investigates the concept from a microeconomic perspective. I suggest that from an economic perspective, social capital is “social” because it generates externalities arising from social interaction. It is “capital” only if its effects persist. The model of social capital that I construct has three building blocks: social interaction, the effects of social interaction, and the mechanisms by which social interaction works. Each of these building blocks is sub-divided based on four types of social interaction: simple one-way relations between an agent and others, networks, clubs, and hierarchical organizations. I distinguish three types of effects, all involving externalities: those relating to knowledge, those relating to opportunistic behavior, and those relating to free-riding. I identify two mechanisms by which social interaction achieves each of these effects. The resulting schema is not the only way of conceptualizing social capital. However, greater simplicity would be achieved at the price of leaving out some aspect of social interaction on which there is empirical evidence of an economic effect. Greater complexity is always possible but would obviously have a price in terms of accessibility. I begin by defining and classifying types of social capital and then analyzing how social interaction raises output. After extending the analysis by allowing the amount of social interaction to be endogenous, I disaggregate the social capital generated by civil society and that created by government.