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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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Social capital: empirical meaning and measurement validity
Wendy Stone,Jody Hughes +1 more
TL;DR: Stone and Hughes as mentioned in this paper used data from the Institute's Families, Social Capital and Citizenship survey of 1500 Australian households to develop theoretically based and empirically valid measures of social capital that can be applied in future work.
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Assessing the Quality of Democracy: Freedom, Competitiveness and Participation in Eighteen Latin American Countries
David Altman,Aníbal Pérez-Liñán +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore three dimensions of the quality of democracy: civil rights, participation and effective competition, and analyze the empirical relationship between all three dimensions in 18 Latin American countries between 1978 and 1996.
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Is fiscal decentralization harmful for economic growth? Evidence from the OECD countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between decentralization and economic growth in 21 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries during the period between 1990 and 2005 and controlling not only for fiscal decentralization, but also for political and administrative decentralization.
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Trust and cooperation: Social capital and community resource management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the average amount sent in a trust game as a measure of social capital in five rural villages in India and analyze how the amount sent is correlated with socio-cultural community characteristics.
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Can good projects succeed in bad communities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted detailed surveys of community-maintained infrastructure projects in Northern Pakistan and found that while community-specific constraints do matter, their impact can be mitigated by better project design.