Leslie E. Anderson

Social Capital in Developing Democracies (eBook, PDF)

Nicaragua and Argentina Compared

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511740770
• Artikelnr.: 38190706

Autorenporträt

Leslie E. Anderson is a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She is a scholar of democracy, popular politics and protest, and democratic development. Professor Anderson is also the author of The Political Ecology of the Modern Peasant: Calculation and Community and Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990¿2001 (with Lawrence C. Dodd), in addition to multiple journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Rezensionen

"This book provides a masterful analysis of political development in the cases of Argentina and Nicaragua. The analysis links citizen participation and institutional development in a novel way that shows how mass movements can establish enduring patterns of relationships between citizens and the state. The writing demonstrates the great depth of Leslie E. Anderson's knowledge of the two countries and the strength of her command of the political and historical literature on them."
- Lisa Baldez, Dartmouth College