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Author Anderson, Leslie (Leslie E.)

Title Social capital in developing democracies : Nicaragua and Argentina compared / Leslie E. Anderson.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part I. Creating social capital -- People I have known: the human face of popular politics -- Creating 'we': Sandinismo and bridging social capital -- Creating 'us' and 'them': Peronism and bonding social capital -- Part II. An Empirical Examination of the Argument -- A tale of two neighborhoods: social capital in Nicaragua and Argentina -- Democracy and its competitors: Political values in Nicaragua and Argentina -- Participation, democratic institutions and procedures -- Part III. Making democracy work without social capital: institutional capital -- If you build it they will come: institutional capital in democratic development -- Conclusion.
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Subject Social capital (Sociology) -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century.
Social capital (Sociology)
Argentina.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Social capital (Sociology) -- Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century.
Nicaragua.
Argentina -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Politics and government.
Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Democracy -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century.
Democracy.
Democracy -- Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Anderson, Leslie (Leslie E.). Social capital in developing democracies. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521192743 (DLC) 2009048077 (OCoLC)468978410
ISBN 9780511749858 (electronic book)
0511749856 (electronic book)
9780511743306 (ebook)
0511743300 (ebook)
9780521192743 (hardback)
0521192749 (hardback)
9780521140843 (paperback)
0521140846 (paperback)