Active Social Capital - Tracing the Roots of Development & Democracy

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-12570-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

The idea of social capital allows scholars to assess the quality of relationships among people within a particular community and show how that quality affects the ability to achieve shared goals. With evidence collected from sixty-nine villages in India, Krishna investigates what social capital is, how it operates in practice, and what results it can be expected to produce.

Does social capital provide a viable means for advancing economic development, promoting ethnic peace, and strengthening democratic governance? The world is richer than ever before, but more than a fifth of its people are poor and miserable. Civil wars and ethnic strife continue to mar prospects for peace. Democracy is in place in most countries, but large numbers of citizens do not benefit from it. How can development, peace and democracy become more fruitful for the ordinary citizen? This book shows how social capital is a crucial dimension of any solution to these problems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krishna, Anirudh

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Can Social Capital Help Support Development and Democracy?2. How Might Social Capital Matter?3. Structure and Agency: New Political Entrepreneurs and the Rise of Village-Based Collective Action4. Measuring Social Capital5. Understanding Economic Development: Why Do Some Villages Develop Faster than Others?6. Examining Community Harmony: Why Are Some Villages Peaceful and Others Not?7. Democratic Participation in Rural North India: Social Capital and New Political Entrepreneurs8. ConclusionAppendices

Über Autor(innen)

Anirudh Krishna is professor at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University