Generating social capital : civil society and institutions in comparative perspective /
edited by Marc Hooghe and Dietlind Stolle.
- First edition.
- vi, 256 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Generating Social Capital -- The Sources of Social Capital -- Democracy in France: Do Associations Matter? -- The Importance of Passive Membership for Social Capital Formation -- Voluntary Associations and Democratic Attitudes: Value Congruence as a Causal Mechanism -- Associations or Informal Networks? Social Capital and Local Development Practices -- Rain or Fog? An Empirical Examination of Social Capital's Rainmaker Effects -- A Tale of Two Cities: Local Patterns of Social Capital -- Trust, Democracy and Governance: Can Government Policies Influence Generalized Trust? -- Social Capital, Impartiality and the Welfare State: An Institutional Approach -- Institutions and Their Impact on Social Capital and Civic Culture: The Case of Italy -- Conclusion: The Sources of Social Capital Reconsidered -- About the Authors -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"Social capital--networks of civic engagements, norms of reciprocity, and attitudes of trust--is widely seen as playing a key role for the health of democracy. While many authors have examined the consequences of social capital, there is a pressing need to explore its sources. This collection brings together leading American and European scholars in the first comparative analysis of how social trust and other civic attitudes are generated. The contributors to this volume examine the generation of social capital from two directions: society-based approaches that emphasize voluntary associations, and institutional approaches that emphasize policy."--Publisher description.