Democracy's Voices : : Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain / / Robert M. Fishman.

Building on one of sociology's core ideas—that social ties can shape collective outcomes—Democracy's Voices shows that connections across class boundaries can remake public rhetoric and thus the quality of democratic life. Robert M. Fishman takes up a question of enduring significance to p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 8 tables, 25 charts/graphs, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Quality of Democracy
  • 2. Exploring Social Ties
  • 3. Social Ties and Discursive Horizons
  • 4. Social Capital or Social Ties?
  • 5. Pursuing Alternative Explanations
  • 6. The Specific and the General for the Social Scientist
  • 7. Beyond These Towns and Valleys
  • Notes
  • Index