Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
by Robert D. Putnam (Author), Robert Leonardi (Author), Raffaella Y. Nanetti (Author)
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Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press (May 27, 1994) Language: English From Publishers Weekly
Harvard professor Putnam offers an in-depth examination of Italian politics and government.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
David L. Kirp
The Nation : Seminal, epochal, path-breaking: All those overworked words apply to a book that, to make the point brazenly, is a Democracy in America for our times.
The Economist : A great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto, and Weber.... If [Putnam's] claims about the essential conditions of successful democracy are correct (and they almost certainly are), then politicians and political scientists alike will have to think again about democracy's prospects in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.
Steven Lukes
The Times Literary Supplement : A remarkable study of `civic traditions.'
The New York Times Book Review : It is rare that one comes across a classic in political science, yet in Robert D. Putnam's Making Democracy Work we undoubtedly have one. . . . Mr. Putnam's seminal work addresses in a rigorously empirical way the central question of democratic theory: What makes democratic institutions stable and effective? . . . [His] findings strikingly corroborate the political theory of civic humanism, according to which strong and free government depends on a virtuous and public-spirited citizenry--on an undergirding civic community. . . . One crucial implication of Making Democracy Work is that feeble and corrupt government, operating against the background of a weak and uncivic society, tends not to foster the creation of wealth, but rather to renew poverty. Overmighty government may stifle economic initiative. But enfeebled government and unrepresentative government kills it, or diverts it into corruption and criminality. . . . This may not, perhaps, be a universal truth; but it is directly relevant to the prospects of democracy in the United States today.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1
Introduction: Studying Institutional Performance
A Voyage of Inquiry
Charting the Voyage
Methods of Inquiry
Overview of the Book
Chapter 2
Changing the Rules: Two Decades of Institutional
Development
Creating Regional Government
The Regional Political Elite: "A New Way of
Doing Politics"
The Deepening of Regional Autonomy
Putting Down Roots: The Region and its Constituents
Conclusions
Chapter 3
Measuring Institutional Performance
Twelve Indicators of Institutional Performance
Coherence and Reliability of the Index of Institutional
Performance
Institutional Performance and Constituency Evaluations
Conclusions
Chapter 4
Explaining Institutional Performance
Socioeconomic Modernity
The Civic Community: Some Theoretical Speculations
The Civic Community: Testing the Theory
Social and Political Life in the Civic Community
Other Explanations for Institutional Success?
Chapter 5
Tracing the Roots of the Civic Community
The Civic Legacies of Medieval Italy
Civic Traditions After Unification
Measuring the Durability of Civic Traditions
Economic Development and Civic Traditions
Chapter 6
Social Capital and Institutional Success
Dilemmas of Collective Action
Social Capital, Trust, and Rotating Credit Associations
Norms of Reciprocity and Networks of Civic Engagement
History and Institutional Performance: Two Social
Equilibria
Lessons from the Italian Regional Experiment
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 [此贴子已经被作者于2008-4-18 21:30:06编辑过]
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