civil society and institutions in comparative perspective /
edited by Marc Hooghe and Dietlind Stolle.
1st ed.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2003.
vi, 256 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : generating social capital / Marc Hooghe and Dietlind Stolle -- The sources of social capital / Dietlind Stolle -- Democracy in France : do associations matter? / Nonna Mayer -- The importance of passive membership for social capital formation / Dag Wollebaek and Per Selle -- Voluntary associations and democratic attitudes : value as a causal mechanism / Marc Hooghe -- Associations or informal networks? Social capital and local development practices / Nadia Molenaers -- Rain or fog? An empirical examination of social capital's rainmaker effects / Job van der Meer -- A tale of two cities : local patterns of social capital / Joep de Hart and Paul Dekker -- Trust, democracy and governance : can government policies influence generalized trust? / Eric M. Uslaner -- Social capital, impartiality and the welfare state : an institutional approach / Bo Rothstein and Dietlind Stolle -- Institutions and their impact on social capital and civic culture : the case of Italy / Michel Huysseune -- Conclusion : the sources of social capital reconsidered / Dietlind Stolle and Marc Hooghe.
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The contributors look at the generation of social capital from two directions: society-based approaches and institutional approaches. Using a variety of methods, they indicate how both play a role in generating social capital and point to practical policies that facilitate its development.