Making Democracy Work : : Civic Traditions in Modern Italy / / Robert Leonardi, Robert D. Putnam, Raffaella Y. Nanetti.

Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing succes...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1994]
©1994
Year of Publication:1994
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Studying Institutional Performance
  • CHAPTER 2. Changing the Rules: Two Decades of Institutional Development
  • CHAPTER 3. Measuring Institutional Performance
  • CHAPTER 4. Explaining Institutional Performance
  • CHAPTER 5. Tracing the Roots of the Civic Community
  • CHAPTER 6. Social Capital and Institutional Success
  • APPENDIX A. Research Methods
  • APPENDIX B. Statistical Evidence on Attitude Change among Regional Councilors
  • APPENDIX C. Institutional Performance (1978-1985)
  • APPENDIX D. Regional Abbreviations Used in Scattergrams
  • APPENDIX E. Local Government Performance (1982-1986) and Regional Government Performance (1978-1985)
  • APPENDIX F. Traditions of Civic Involvement (1860-1920)
  • Notes
  • Index