The socio-economic determinants of social capital and the mediating effect of history: Making Democracy Work revisited
International audience ; Putnam argued that the different levels of social capital between the North and the South of Italy originated in the Middle Ages. In the North of Italy, the existence of a dense network of medieval towns gave rise to horizontal ties and collective action. Conversely, in the South of Italy, the authoritarian Norman rule generated hierarchical relationships and the absence of collective action. This article proposes an alternative explanation for the lack of social capital in the South of Italy using a comparative perspective. The analysis is undertaken in two steps: 1)... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
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Schlagwörter: | Comparative Historical Analysis / European Regions / Making Democracy Work / South of Italy / Wallonia / Social Capital / [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27684361 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01421227 |