Making democracy work : civic traditions in modern Italy / Robert D. Putnam with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti.
1993
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Author
Title
Making democracy work : civic traditions in modern Italy / Robert D. Putnam with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti.
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993]
Copyright
©1993
Call Number
JN5477.R35 P866 1993
ISBN
0691078890 (acid-free paper) :
Description
xv, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25965018
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-247) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Ch. 1
Introduction: Studying Institutional Performance
3
A Voyage of Inquiry
3
Charting the Voyage
7
Methods of Inquiry
12
Ch. 2
Changing the Rules: Two Decades of Institutional Development
17
Creating Regional Government
18
The Regional Political Elite: "A New Way of Doing Politics"
26
The Deepening of Regional Autonomy
38
Putting Down Roots: The Region and its Constituents
47
Ch. 3
Measuring Institutional Performance
63
Twelve Indicators of Institutional Performance
65
Coherence and Reliability of the Index of Institutional Performance
73
Institutional Performance and Constituency Evaluations
76
Ch. 4
Explaining Institutional Performance
83
Socioeconomic Modernity
83
The Civic Community: Some Theoretical Speculations
86
The Civic Community: Testing the Theory
91
Social and Political Life in the Civic Community
99
Other Explanations for Institutional Success?
116
Ch. 5
Tracing the Roots of the Civic Community
121
The Civic Legacies of Medieval Italy
121
Civic Traditions After Unification
137
Measuring the Durability of Civic Traditions
148
Economic Development and Civic Traditions
152
Ch. 6
Social Capital and Institutional Success
163
Dilemmas of Collective Action
163
Social Capital, Trust, and Rotating Credit Associations
167
Norms of Reciprocity and Networks of Civic Engagement
171
History and Institutional Performance: Two Social Equilibria
177
Lessons from the Italian Regional Experiment
181
Appendix A: Research Methods
187
Appendix B: Statistical Evidence on Attitude Change among Regional Councilors
193
Appendix C: Institutional Performance (1978-1985)
198
Appendix D: Regional Abbreviations Used in Scattergrams
200
Appendix E: Local Government Performance (1982-1986) and Regional Government Performance (1978-1985)
201
Appendix F: Traditions of Civic Involvement (1860-1920)
205
Notes
207
Index
249