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Social
Capital and Institutional Performance
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 .
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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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