MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009048077
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008 091112s2010 nyu 000 0 eng
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020 $a9780521192743 (hardback)
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050 00 $aHM708$b.A52 2010
082 00 $a302.0982$222
100 1 $aAnderson, Leslie$q(Leslie E.)
245 10 $aSocial capital in developing democracies :$bArgentina and Nicaragua compared /$cLeslie E. Anderson.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1001
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson's Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution. Anderson finds that in Nicaragua, strong, positive, bridging social capital has enhanced democratization while in Argentina the legacy of Peronism has created bonding and non-democratic social capital that perpetually undermines the development of democracy. Faced with the reality of an anti-democratic form of social capital, Anderson suggests that Argentine democracy is developing on the basis of an alternative resource - institutional capital. Anderson concludes that social capital can and does enhance democracy under historical conditions that have created horizontal ties among citizens, but that social capital can also undermine democratization where historical conditions have created vertical ties with leaders and suspicion or non-cooperation among citizens"--Provided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Creating Social Capital: People I Have Known: The Human Face of Popular Politics: 2. Creating 'we': Sandinismo and bridging social capital; 3. Creating 'us' and 'them': Peronism and bonding social capital; Part II. An Empirical Examination of the Argument: 4. A tale of two neighborhoods: social capital in Nicaragua and Argentina; 5. Political capital in Nicaragua and Argentina: political activism and political values; 6. Political capital in Nicaragua and Argentina: democratic institutions and procedures; Part III. Making Democracy Work Without Social Capital: Institutional Capital: 7. If you build it they will come; 8. Conclusion.
650 0 $aSocial capital (Sociology)$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSocial capital (Sociology)$zNicaragua$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aArgentina$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
651 0 $aNicaragua$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zNicaragua$xHistory$y20th century.
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