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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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Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement, and Sense of Community
TL;DR: This paper found that online social contact supplements the frequency of face-to-face and telephone contact, and that frequent email users have a greater sense of online community, although their overall sense of community is similar to that of infrequent email users.
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Exploring social capital debates at the World Bank
TL;DR: This article explored the ways in which discussions of social capital have emerged within the World Bank, and how they interacted both with project practices and with larger debates in the institution, and concluded with a reflection on implications of these debates for future research, policy, and practice.
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Are Rural Development Programmes Socially Inclusive? Social Inclusion, Civic Engagement, Participation, and Social Capital: Exploring the Differences.
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that a more careful analysis of what social inclusion means, what civic engagement means, and why participation is presumed to be the norm, leads to a different conclusion about who is excluded.