Making Democracy Work
by Putnam, Robert D.; Leonardi, Robert; Nanetti, RaffaellaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-05-27
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | |
| List of Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Studying Institutional Performance | p. 3 |
| A Voyage of Inquiry | p. 3 |
| Charting the Voyage | p. 7 |
| Methods of Inquiry | p. 12 |
| Changing the Rules: Two Decades of Institutional Development | p. 17 |
| Creating Regional Government | p. 18 |
| The Regional Political Elite: "A New Way of Doing Politics" | p. 26 |
| The Deepening of Regional Autonomy | p. 38 |
| Putting Down Roots: The Region and its Constituents | p. 47 |
| Measuring Institutional Performance | p. 63 |
| Twelve Indicators of Institutional Performance | p. 65 |
| Coherence and Reliability of the Index of Institutional Performance | p. 73 |
| Institutional Performance and Constituency Evaluations | p. 76 |
| Explaining Institutional Performance | p. 83 |
| Socioeconomic Modernity | p. 83 |
| The Civic Community: Some Theoretical Speculations | p. 86 |
| The Civic Community: Testing the Theory | p. 91 |
| Social and Political Life in the Civic Community | p. 99 |
| Other Explanations for Institutional Success? | p. 116 |
| Tracing the Roots of the Civic Community | p. 121 |
| The Civic Legacies of Medieval Italy | p. 121 |
| Civic Traditions After Unification | p. 137 |
| Measuring the Durability of Civic Traditions | p. 148 |
| Economic Development and Civic Traditions | p. 152 |
| Social Capital and Institutional Success | p. 163 |
| Dilemmas of Collective Action | p. 163 |
| Social Capital, Trust, and Rotating Credit Associations | p. 167 |
| Norms of Reciprocity and Networks of Civic Engagement | p. 171 |
| History and Institutional Performance: Two Social Equilibria | p. 177 |
| Lessons from the Italian Regional Experiment | p. 181 |
| Appendix A: Research Methods | p. 187 |
| Appendix B: Statistical Evidence on Attitude Change among Regional Councilors | p. 193 |
| Appendix C: Institutional Performance (1978-1985) | p. 198 |
| Appendix D: Regional Abbreviations Used in Scattergrams | p. 200 |
| Appendix E: Local Government Performance (1982-1986) and Regional Government Performance (1978-1985) | p. 201 |
| Appendix F: Traditions of Civic Involvement (1860-1920) | p. 205 |
| Notes | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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