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Capital and Institutional Performance
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This
section is devoted to the role of social capital in political and
institutional development. Particular attention is given to studies
dealing
with the relationship between the presence of a vibrant civil society
and democratic institutions' performance. Suggested readings are
closely related to those collected in the section on Social
capital and participation .
• Essential readings
• Further readings
• Back to reading list
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Essential Readings
• Badescu, G., Uslaner, E. (2003), Social
Capital and Democratic Transition, London and New York, Routledge.
• Knack,
S. (2002), Social
Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence From the U.S. States,
American Journal of Political Science.
• Mutz, D. (2002), Cross-cutting
Social Networks: Testing Democratic Theory in Practice, American
Political Science Review, 96(1), 111-126.
• Putnam, R. (1993) Making
Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton
University Press, Princeton, trad. it. La tradizione civica nelle
regioni italiane, Mondadori, Milano
• Putnam, R. (ed) (2002), Democracies
in flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society,
Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Uslaner, E. (1999), Democracy
and Social Capital, in M. Warren, ed., Democracy and Trust,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
• Uslaner, E. (2003), Political
Parties and Social Capital, Political Parties or
Social Capital, in R.S. Katz and W.F. Crotty, eds., Handbook
of Political Parties, Sage, forthcoming, 2004.
• Van Deth, J.W., Maraffi, M. Newton, K.,
Whitely, P.F. (eds) (1999), Social
Capital and European Democracy, London, Routledge.
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Further Readings
•
Bjørnskov, C. (2003), Corruption
and Social Capital, Aarhus School of Business, Department of
Economics.
•
Blair, H. (2000), Participation
and Accountability at the Periphery: Democratic Local Governance
in Six Countries, World Development Vol. 28, No. 1, 21-39.
•
Booth, J., Bayer Richard, P. (1997), Civil
Society, Political Capital and Democratization in Central America,
Paper presented at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997.
•
Braithwaite, V.A., Levi, M. (1998), Trust
and Governance, New York, Russel Sage Foundation.
•
Brandell, C.E. (2003), Public
Discourse and Social Capital: An Assessment of Open, Honest and
Fair in One Community's Public Deliberation Processes, Western
Michigan University, PhD Dissertation.
•
Brehm, J., Rahn, W. (1997), Individual-Level
evidence for the causes and consequences of Social Capital,
American Journal of Political Science, 41, 3, 999-1023.
•
Bromley, C., Curtice, J., Seyd, B. (2001), Political
engagement, trust and constitutional reform, in Park, A., Curtice,
J., Thomson, K., Jarvis, L. and Bromley, C. (eds) British Social
Attitudes: the 18th Report – Public policy, Social ties, London,
Sage.
• Coffé, H., Geys, B. (2005), Institutional
Performance and Social Capital: an Application to the Local Govrnment
Level, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Political Science.
• Couto, A.G., Guthrie, C.S. (1999), Making
Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and
the Democratic Prospect, University of North Carolina Press.
•
Cusack, T.R. (1997), Social
Capital, Institutional Structures and Democratic Performance:
a Comparative Study of German Local Governemnts, Discussion Paper
FS III 97-201, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
(WZB).
•
De Rosa, R. (2004), La
funzione del capitale sociale nelle organizzazioni di partito,
Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta di Roma, mimeo.
• Evans, P. (1996), Government
Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on
Synergy, World Development, 24(6), 1119-1132.
• Gay,
C. (2002), Spirals of Trust: The Effect of Descriptive Representation
on the Relationship between Citizens and Their Government, American
Journal of Political Science 46 (Oct):717-733.
• Golden, M.A. (2003), Electoral
Connections: The Effects of the Personal Vote on Political Patronage,
Bureaucracy and Legislation in Postwar Italy, British Journal
of Political Science (2003), 33:189-212.
•
Hayoz, N., Sergeyev, V. (2003), Social
networks in Russian politics, in Social Capital and the Transition
to Democracy, Badescu, G. Uslaner, E. London: Routledge, 46-60.
•
Heliwell, J.F. (1994), Empirical
Linkages Between Democracy And Economic Growth, NBER Working
Paper, 4066, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Ma.
•
Keele, L. (2004), Social
Capital, Government Performance, and the Dynamics of Trust in Government,
Department of Politics and International Relations Nuffield College
and Oxford University, Unpublished Paper.
• Kingston, C. (2005), Social
Capital and Corruption: Theory, and Evidence from India, BREAD
Working Paper No. 75.
• La
Porta, R., Lopez de Silanes, F., Schleifer, A., Vishny, R. (1998),
The Quality of Government,
NBER Working Paper no. 6727, Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic
Research.
• Lara, N. (2005), Capital social,
partidos polìticos y abstenciòn electoral. Perfil
del abstencionista desde la óptica del capital social,
Ergatorre Libros, Madrid.
•
Milner, H. (2002), Civic
Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work, Lebanon,
University Press of New England.
•
Milner, H., Erson, S. (2000), Social
Capital, Civic Engagement and Institutional Performance in Sweden:
An Analysis of the Swedish Regions, Paper prepared for the ECPR
Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Copenhagen, 14-19 April
2000.
•
Mutti, A. (2000), Particularism
and the Modernization Process in Southern Italy, International
Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 4, 579-590.
•
Newton, K. (2001), Social
Trust and Political Disaffection: Social Capital and Democracy,
Paper prepared for the EURESCO Conference on Social Capital: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives, Exeter, 15-20 September 2001.
• Paxton, P. (2002), Social
Capital and Democracy: An Interdependent Relationship, American
Sociological Review, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Apr., 2002) , pp. 254-277.
•
Phillpot, R. (2002), Provincial
performance and social capital in Papua New Guinea, National
Centre for Development Studies, The Australian National University,
Development Bulletin No. 60.
• Sabatini, F. (2005), Social
Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development,
University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Public Economics.
Paper accepted for presentation at the COE/JEPA
(Center of Excellence / Japan Economic Policy Association) Joint
International Conference, "Towards a New Economic Paradigm",
Kobe, Japan, 17-18 December 2005.
• Seligson, A.L. (1999), Civic
Association And Democratic Participation In Central America: A Test
of the Putnam Thesis, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 32,
No. 3, 342-362 (1999).
• Sides, J. (1999), It
Takes Two: The Reciprocal Relationship between Social Capital and
Democracy, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 2-5.
• Schollaert, A., Van de Gaer, D. (2005),
Boycotts,
power politics or trust building: how to prevent conflict?,
Working Paper, Universiteit Gent, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
• Scholz, J.T. (2000), Trust, Taxes,
and Compliance, in Braithwaite, V., Levi, M. (eds), Trust
and Governance, New York, Russell Sage.
•
Uslaner, E. (2003), Trust
and Social Bonds: Faith in Others and Policy Outcomes Reconsidered,
forthcoming in in Political Research Quarterly 2004 (v. 57).
•
Van Deth, J.W. (2001), The
Proof of the Pudding: Social Capital, Democracy, and Citizenship,
Paper prepared for the EURESCO Conference on Social Capital: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives, Exeter, 15-20 September 2001.
•
Wallis, J., Dollery, B. (2002), Social
Capital and Local Government Capacity, Australian Journal of
Public Administration, Vol. 61, Issue 3, 76, September 2002.
•
Walston, J. (1988), The
Mafia and clientelism : roads to Rome in post-war Calabria,
London and New York, Routledge.
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