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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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Power, trust, social exchange and community support
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Political participation and political trust in Amsterdam: Civic communities and ethnic networks
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the political participation and political trust of four ethnic groups in Amsterdam and concluded that there is a rank correlation between the degree of civic community of the various ethnic groups and the levels of political participation in local non-ethnic political institutions.
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Social capital, household welfare, and poverty in Indonesia
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Nations of Joiners: Explaining Voluntary Association Membership in Democratic Societies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared levels of voluntary association membership for 33 democratic countries using data from surveys of nationally representative samples of adults from the 1990s and identified four explanations of national differences in association involvement: economic development, religious composition, type of polity, and years of continuous democracy.
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The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy
TL;DR: This article used a border specification and a two-dimensional geographic regression discontinuity design to identify from individuals living within a restricted band around the former border and found that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police.