Making Democracy Work (eBook)

Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti, Robert D. Putnam (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

1994
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2074-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A classic.New York TimesSeminal, epochal, path-breaking . . . a Democracy in America for our times.The NationFrom the bestselling author of Bowling Alone, a landmark account of the secret of successful democraciesWhy 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, acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author 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 healthcare, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity. The result is a landmark book filled with crucial insights about how to make democracy work.

Autor

Robert D. Putnam is Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His many books include Hanging Together: The Seven-Power Summits (Harvard). Robert Leonardi is Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Community Politics at the London School of Economics, and Raffaella Y. Nanetti is Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Analysis at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • Agriculture • Alexis de Tocqueville • Backwardness • Basilicata • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Calabria • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • Carlo Cattaneo • Case study • Catholic Action • central authority • central government • city-state • Civic Community • civic engagement • civic virtue • civil service • Clientelism • Collective Action • Commodity • communism • community leader • Competition • decentralization • Democracy • democracy in America • Democratization • distrust • Economic Development • Economic History • Economics • economist • economy • Elite • Emilia-Romagna • Employment • eurobarometer • Extremism • Friuli-Venezia Giulia • Good government • Governance • Government • Grassroots • Harvard University • implementation • income • incumbent • Industrial district • industrialisation • Infant Mortality • Institution • Italians • Legislation • Legislature • Modernity • National Government (United Kingdom) • New Institutionalism • newspaper • Norm of reciprocity • Opportunism • Policy • Political culture • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political Sociology • Politician • Politics • public administration • Public Policy • Regime • Regional Planning • Representative Democracy • Republic • Republicanism • Robert D. Putnam • Ronald Inglehart • Social capital • Social Class • social issue • social relation • Social Science • Social Structure • Social Theory • Socioeconomic development • Socioeconomics • Solidarity • southern Italy • The Civic Culture • The Other Hand • Trade Union • Tradition • trasformismo • Voting • welfare • Workforce • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2074-X / 140082074X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2074-0 / 9781400820740