Ebook: Generating Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective

The contributors look at the generation of social capital from two directions: society-based approaches and institutional approaches. Using a variety of methods, they indicate how both play a role in generating social capital and point to practical policies that facilitate its development.;Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Generating Social Capital; 2 The Sources of Social Capital; 3 Democracy in France: Do Associations Matter?; 4 The Importance of Passive Membership for Social Capital Formation; 5 Voluntary Associations and Democratic Attitudes: Value Congruence as a Causal Mechanism; 6 Associations or Informal Networks? Social Capital and Local Development Practices; 7 Rain or Fog? An Empirical Examination of Social Capital's Rainmaker Effects; 8 A Tale of Two Cities: Local Patterns of Social Capital.