Social Capital in Developing Democracies : Nicaragua and Argentina Compared
ISBN: 9780521192743 | 0521192749
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 3/8/2010
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Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution. Leslie E. Anderson concludes that social capital can 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.
Drawing on extensive field work in Nica... MORE
Drawing on extensive field work in Nica... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| An Introduction | p. 1 |
| Creating Social Capital | |
| People I Have Known: The Human Face of Popular Politics | p. 27 |
| Creating "We": Sandinismo and Bridging Social Capital | p. 31 |
| Creating "Us" and "Them": Peronism and Bonding Social Capital | p. 68 |
| An Empirical Examination of the Argument | |
| A Tale of Two Neighborhoods: Social Capital in Nicaragua and Argenti... MORE | p. 115 |
| Democracy and Its Competitors: Political Values in Nicaragua and Argentina | p. 138 |
| Participation, Democratic Institutions, and Procedures | p. 172 |
| Making Democracy Work Without Social Capital: Institutional Capital | |
| If You Build It They Will Come: Institutional Capital in Democratic Development | p. 201 |
| Conclusion | p. 238 |
| Appendix | p. 273 |
| Works Cited | p. 277 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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