ISBN:
0511749856
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9780511749858
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 309 pages)
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Anderson, Leslie (Leslie E.) Social capital in developing democracies
DDC:
302.0982
Keywords:
Social capital (Sociology) History 20th century
;
Democracy History 20th century
;
Democracy History 20th century
;
Social capital (Sociology) History 20th century
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Social capital (Sociology)
;
Democracy
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Politics and government
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PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
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History
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Nicaragua Politics and government 20th century
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Argentina Politics and government 20th century
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Argentina
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Nicaragua
Abstract:
"Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson's Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution. Anderson finds that in Nicaragua, strong, positive, bridging social capital has enhanced democratization while in Argentina the legacy of Peronism has created bonding and non-democratic social capital that perpetually undermines the development of democracy. Faced with the reality of an anti-democratic form of social capital, Anderson suggests that Argentine democracy is developing on the basis of an alternative resource - institutional capital. Anderson concludes that social capital can and does enhance democracy under historical conditions that have created horizontal ties among citizens, but that social capital can also undermine democratization where historical conditions have created vertical ties with leaders and suspicion or non-cooperation among citizens"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Introduction -- Part I. Creating social capital -- People I have known: the human face of popular politics -- Creating 'we': Sandinismo and bridging social capital -- Creating 'us' and 'them': Peronism and bonding social capital -- Part II. An Empirical Examination of the Argument -- A tale of two neighborhoods: social capital in Nicaragua and Argentina -- Democracy and its competitors: Political values in Nicaragua and Argentina -- Participation, democratic institutions and procedures -- Part III. Making democracy work without social capital: institutional capital -- If you build it they will come: institutional capital in democratic development -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index
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