Subject: Political Science Book Title: Democracies in Flux
Democracies in Flux
The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society
Putnam, Robert D.
(Editor), Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Print publication date: 2002
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515089-6
doi:10.1093/0195150899.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515089-6
doi:10.1093/0195150899.001.0001
Abstract:
This book examines the changes in social capital in eight advanced democracies: Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. It considers both qualitative and quantitative evidence covering the period from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century. Despite the lack of a single verdict, this volume offers a diversity of perspectives and insights from a collection of creative scholars.
Keywords: social capital, democracy, Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, Sweden, United States
Keywords: social capital, democracy, Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, Sweden, United States
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Great Britain: The Role of Government and the Distribution of Social Capital
2. The United States: Bridging the Privileged and the Marginalized?
3. United States: From Membership to Advocacy
4. France: Old and New Civic and Social Ties in France
5. A Decline of Social Capital? The German Case
6. From Civil War to Civil Society: Social Capital in Spain from the 1930s to the 1990s
7. Sweden: Social Capital in the Social Democratic State
8. Australia: Making the Lucky Country
9. Broadening the Basis of Social Capital in Japan
Conclusion
Index
doi:10.1093/0195150899.001.0001
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