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Anderson, Leslie E.

Social capital in developing democracies : Nicaragua and Argentina compared / Leslie E. Anderson - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - xiii, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- Part I. Creating Social Capital -- People I Have Known: The Human Face of Popular Politics -- Creating ’we’: Sandinismo and bridging social capital -- Creating ’us’ and ’them’: Peronism and bonding social capital -- Part II. An Empirical Examination of the Argument -- A tale of two neighborhoods: social capital in Nicaragua and Argentina -- Democracy and its competitors: Political values in Nicaragua and Argentina -- Participation, democratic institutions and procedures -- Part III. Making Democracy Work Without Social Capital: Institutional Capital -- If you build it they will come: institutional capital in democratic development -- Conclusion

ISBN: 9780521140843 9780521192743

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social capital (Sociology)--History--Argentina--20th century
Democracy--History--Argentina--20th century
Democracy--History--Nicaragua--20th century
Social capital (Sociology)--History--Nicaragua--20th century

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Argentina--Politics and government--20th century
Nicaragua--Politics and government--20th century

Dewey Class. No.: 302.0982 / A547S