Civil Society, Social Capital, and the State in Comparative Perspective

Required Readings

Bellah, Robert N., et al. Chapters Preface, 1, 2, 7, 8, and 10 in Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520205680.

Putnam, Robert D., Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 6 in Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780691037387.

Putnam, Robert D. Chapters 17-20 in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community . New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. ISBN: 9780684832838.

Ganguly, Meenakshi. “A Banking System Built for Terrorism.” Time , October 5, 2001.

Sorauf, Frank. “The Conceptual Muddle.” In The Public Interest: Nomos V . Edited by Carl J. Friedrich. Rockaway Beach, NY: Lieber-Atherton, 1962, pp. 490-94. ISBN: 9780883110416.

Vallier, Ivan. “Empirical Comparisons of Social Structure: Leads and Lags.” In Comparative Methods in Sociology: Essays on Trends and Applications . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1971, pp. 223-27. ISBN: 9780520017436.

Locke, Richard, and Kathleen Thelen. “Problems of Equivalence in Comparative Politics: Apples and Oranges, Again.” Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section in Comparative Politics 8, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 1-9.

Seligman, Adam. “The Modern Idea of Civil Society.” In The Idea of Civil Society . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 15-58. ISBN: 9780691010816.

Marx, Karl. Excerpts from “On the Jewish Question.” In The Civil Society Reader . Edited by Hodgkinson and Foley. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003, pp. 96-112. ISBN: 9781584652786

Tocqueville, De Alexis. Excerpts from “Democracy in America.” In The Civil Society Reader . Edited by Hodgkinson and Foley. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003, pp. 113-32. ISBN: 9781584652786

Foley, Michael, and Bob Edwards. “Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and Social Capital in Comparative Perspective.” American Behavioral Scientist 42, no. 1 (September 1998): 5-20.

Hann, Chris. Introduction in Civil Society: Challenging Western Models . Edited by Hann and Dunn. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 9780415132183.

Weller, Robert. Chapters 2, and 5 in Alternate Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780813339313.

Keane, John. “Global Civil Society?” Chapter 2 in Global Civil Society 2002 . Edited by Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780199251681.

Supplemental Readings

Geremek, Bronislaw. “Civil Society Then and Now.” Chapter 20 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy . Edited by Diamond and Plattner. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780801853050.

Gallie, W. B. “Essentially Contested Concepts.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 51 (1956).

Thagard, Paul. “The Problem of Revolutionary Conceptual Change.” Chapter 1 in Conceptual Revolution . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Coleman, James. “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital.” American Journal of Sociology 94 (1988): S95-S120.

Granovetter, Mark. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” American Journal of Sociology 78 (1973): 1360-1380.

Portes, Alejandro. “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 24 (1998): 1-24.

Putnam, Robert D., Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. Chapters 5, and 6 in Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780691037387.

Putnam, Robert D., and Kristin Goss. Introduction in Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195171600.

Ostrom, Elinor, and T. K. Ahn. Introduction in Foundations of Social Capital . Edited by Ostrom, and Ahn. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 9781840648270.

Foley, Michael, and Bob Edwards. “Escape from Politics? Social Theory and the Social Capital Debate.” American Behavioral Scientist 40, no. 5 (1997): 550-61.

Skocpol, Theda. “United States: From Membership to Advocacy.” In Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society . Edited by Robert Putnam. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195171600.

Putnam, Robert D. Chapters 10-15 in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community . New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000, pp. 183-286. ISBN: 9780684832838. (Skim.)

Norris, Pippa. “The Impact of Television on Civic Malaise.” In Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries . Edited by Susan Pharr, and Robert Putnam. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 231-51. ISBN: 9780691049243.

Heying, Charles H. “Civic Elites and Corporate Delocalization: An Alternative Explanation for Declining Civic Engagement.” In Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perpsective . Edited by Bob Edwards, Michael W. Foley, and Mario Diani. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001, pp. 101-11.S. ISBN: 9781584651253.

Curtis, James E., Douglas E. Baer, and Edward G. Grabb. “Nations of Joiners: Explaining Voluntary Association Membership in Democratic Societies.” American Sociological Review 66, no. 6 (December 2001): 783-805.

McDonough, Peter, Doh C. Shin, and Jose Alvaro Moises. “Democratization and Participation: Comparing Spain, Korea, and Brazil.” Journal of Politics 60, no. 4 (November 1998): 919-953.

Persell, Caroline Hodges. “The Interdependence of Social Justice and Civil Society.” Sociological Forum 12, no. 2 (June 1997): 149-72.

Mishler, William, and Richard Rose. “Trust, Distrust, and Skepticism: Popular Evaluations of Civil and Political Institutions in Post-Communist Societies.” Journal of Politics 59, no. 2 (May 1997): 418-51.

Sampson, Steven. “The Social Life of Projects: Importing Civil Society to Albania.” Civil Society: Challenging Western Models . Edited by Chris Hann, and Elizabeth Dunn. London: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 9780415132183.

Hansmann, Henry. “Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organization.” In The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook . Edited by Walter Powell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987, pp. 27-42. ISBN: 9780300037029.

Inoguchi, Takashi. “Broadening the Basis of Social Capital in Japan.” In Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society . Edited by Robert Putnam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780195150896.

Supplementary Readings

Chapters 1, and 5 on Great Britain and Germany in Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society. Edited by Robert Putnam. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195171600.

Crowley, Jocelyn Elise, and Theda Skocpol. “The Rush to Organize: Explaining Associational Formation in the United States, 1860s-1920s.” American Journal of Political Science 45, no. 4 (October 2001): 813-29.

Brehm, John, and Wendy Rahn. “Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital.” American Journal of Political Science 41, no. 3 (July 1997).

Paxton, Pamela. “Is Social Capital Declining in the United States? A Multiple Indicator Assessment.” American Journal of Sociology 105, no. 1 (July 1999).

Douglas, James. “Political Theories of Nonprofit Organization.” The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook . Edited by Walter Powell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987, pp. 43-54. ISBN: 9780300037029.

Evans, Peter. “Introduction: Development Strategies Across the Public-Private Divide,” and “Government Action, Social Capital, and Development: Reviewing the Evidence of Synergy.” In State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780877251941.

Ostrom, Elinor. “Crossing the Great Divide: Coproduction, Synergy, and Development.” In State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780877251941.

Woolcock, Michael. “Social Capital and Economic Development.” Theory and Society 27, no. 2: 151-208.

Evans, Peter. Chapter 3 in Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780691037363.

Fukuyama, Francis. “Social Capital and the Global Economy.” Foreign Affairs 74, no. 5 (September/October 1995).

Luo, Tar-Der. “The Significance of Networks in the Initiation of Small Businesses in Taiwan.” Sociological Forum 12, no. 2: 297-317.

Elyachar, Julia. “Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt.” Public Culture 14, no. 3: 493-513.

Rao, Vijayendra. “Poverty and Public Culture.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , no. 573: 85-104.

Diamond, Larry. “Toward Democratic Consolidation.” In The Global Resurgence of Democracy . Edited by Larry Diamond, and Marc Plattner. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. pp. 227-240. ISBN: 9780801853050.

Paley, Julia. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 1-20, 143-181. ISBN: 9780520227682.

Harik, Iliya. “Pluralism in the Arab World.” Chapter 23 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy . Edited by Diamond, and Plattner. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780801853050.

Ekiert, Grzegorz, and Jan Kubik. Chapter 2 in Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland 1989-1993. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780472110278.

Fish, Steven M. “Russia’s Fourth Transition.” Journal of Democracy 5, no. 3 (July 1994): 31-43.

Gibson, James. “Social Networks, Civil Society, and the Prospects for Consolidating Russia’s Democratic Transition.” American Journal of Political Science 45, no. 1 (January 2001): 51-68.

Perry, Elizabeth, and Ellen Fuller. “China’s Long March Toward Democracy.” World Policy Journal 8, no. 4 (1991): 663-85.

Gyimak-Boadi, E. “Civil Society in Africa.” Journal of Democracy 7, no. 2 (April 1996): 118-132.

Norton, Augustus Richard. Foreword and Introduction in _Civil Society in the Middle East . Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 9789004100398.

Toprak, Binnaz. “Civil Society in Turkey.” Chapter 3 in Civil Society in the Middle East . Edited by Norton. Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 9789004100398.

Ding, X. L. “Institutional Amphibiousness and the Transition from Communism: The Case of China.” British Journal of Political Science , no. 24 (1994): 293-318.

Diamond, Larry. “Nigeria: The Uncivic Society and the Descent into Praetorianism.” Chapter 9 in Politics in Developing Countries: Comparing Experiences with Democracy . Edited by Diamond, Linz, and Lipset. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1990. ISBN: 9781555872120.

Levi, Margaret. “A State of Trust.” Chapter 4 in Trust and Governance . Edited by Braithwaite and Levi. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. ISBN: 9780871541352.

Narayan, Deepa. “Bonds and Bridges: Social Capital and Poverty.” World Bank, July 1999.

Lam, Wai Fung. “Institutional Design of Public Agencies and Coproduction: A Study of Irrigation Associations in Taiwan.” In State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780877251941.

Tsai, Lily L. “Cadres, Temple and Lineage Institutions, and Governance in Rural China.” The China Journal 48 (2002): 1-27

Salamon, Lester. “Of Market Failure, Voluntary Failure, and Third-Party Government: Toward a Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State.” Journal of Voluntary Action Research 16, no. 1/2: 35-61.

Chapter 1 in Global Civil Society 2001 . Edited by Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780199251681.

Schramm, Matthias, and Markus Taube. “Evolution and Institutional Foundation of the Hawala Financial System.” Report, German Institute for Economic Research, DIW-Berlin. June 2002.

Khagram, Sanjeev, James Riker, and Kathryn Sikkink. “From Santiago to Seattle: Transnational Advocacy Groups Restructuring World Politics.” Chapter 1 in Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms . Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780816639076.

Sikkink, Kathryn. “Restructuring World Politics: The Limits and Asymmetries of Soft Power.” Chapter 15 in Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms . Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780816639076.

Brysk, Alison. “From Above and Below: Social Movements, the International System, and Human Rights in Argentina.” Comparative Political Studies , no.3: 259-85.

Howell, Jude, and Jenny Pearce. “Manufacturing Civil Society from the Outside: Donor Interventions.” Chapter 5 in Civil Society and Development . Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9781555876197.

Helliwell, John. “Maintaining Social Ties: Social Capital in a Global Information Age.” Keynote address to the 75th Anniversary Conference of the University of Tilburg on Sustainable Ties in the Information Society . March 26-28, 2003.

Fisher, William. “Doing Good? The Politics and Antipolitics of NGO Practices.” Annual Review of Anthropology 26 (1997): 439-464.

Iriye, Akira. “A Century of NGOs.” Chapter 13 in The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the “American Century” . Edited by Michael J. Hogan. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780521779777.

Varshney, Ashutosh. “Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond.” World Politics 53, no. 3 (2001): 362-98.

Schrepfer, Susan. “Establishing Administrative ‘Standing’: The Sierra Club and the Forest Service, 1897-1956.” In American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics . Edited by C. Miller. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997, pp. 125-42. ISBN: 070060849.

Skocpol, Theda. Chapter 6 in Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780674717664.

Weller, Robert. “Forms of Association and Social Action: Taiwan’s Environmental Movement.” Chapter 6 in Alternate Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780813339313.

Clemens, Elisabeth. “Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women’s Groups and the Transformation of American Politics, 1820-1890.” Chapter 3 in Civic Engagement in American Democracy . Edited by Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780815728092.

Tarrow, Sidney. “Mad Cows and Social Activists: Contentious Politics in the Trilateral Democracies.” Chapter 12 in Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries? Edited by Susan Pharr and Robert Putnam. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691049243.

Sidney Verba. “The Origins and Political Consequences of Social Capital.” Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780674942936.

Scholzman, Kay Lehman, Sidney Verba, and Henry Brady. “Civic Participation and the Equality Problem.” Chapter 12 in Civic Engagement in American Democracy . Edited by Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780815728092.

Cohen, Joshua, and Joel Rogers. “Secondary Associations in Democratic Governance.” Politics and Society 20 (1992): 393-472.

Berry, Jeffrey. “The Rise of Citizen Groups.” Chapter 10 in Civic Engagement in American Democracy . Edited by Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780815728092.

Fiorina, Morris. “Extreme Voices: A Dark Side of Civic Engagement.” Chapter 11 in Civic Engagement in American Democracy . Edited by Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780815728092.

Reid, Elizabeth. “Nonprofit Advocacy and Political Participation.” Chapter 9 in Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict. Edited by E. T. Boris and C. E. Steuerle. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780877666875.

Hechter, Michael. Chapters 2 and 3 in Principles of Group Solidarity . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780520064621.

Axelrod, Robert. Chapter 1 in The Evolution of Cooperation . (Chapter 9 Optional.) New York, NY: Basic Books, 1985. ISBN: 9780465021215.

Putnam, Robert. “Reciprocity, Honesty, and Trust.” Chapter 8 in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community . New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. ISBN: 9780684832838.

Hardin, Russell. “Trust in Government.” Chapter 1 in Trust and Governance . Edited by Braithwaite and Levi. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. ISBN: 9780871541352.

Tyler, Tom. “Trust and Democratic Governance.” Chapter 11 in Trust and Governance . Edited by Braithwaite and Levi. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. ISBN: 9780871541352.

Peel, Mark. “Trusting Disadvantaged Citizens.” Chapter 13 in Trust and Governance . Edited by Braithwaite and Levi. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. ISBN: 9780871541352.

Braithwaite, John. “Institutionalizing Distrust, Enculturating Trust.” Chapter 14 in Trust and Governance . Edited by Braithwaite and Levi. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. ISBN: 9780871541352.

Hardin, Russell. “The Street-Level Epistemology of Trust.” Politics and Society 21 (1993): 505-31.

Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui. Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994, pp. 75-108. ISBN: 9780801495922.

Gouldner, Alvin. “The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement.” American Sociological Review 25, no. 2 (April 1960): 161-78.

Sahlins, Marshall. Stone-Age Economics. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 185-232. ISBN: 9780415320108.

Putnam, Robert D., Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. Chapter 4 in Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780691037387. (Re-read.)

Jackman, Robert, and Ross Miller. “A Renaissance of Political Culture?” American Journal of Political Science 40 (1996): 632-59.

———. “Social Capital and Politics.” Annual Review of Political Science 1 (1998): 47-73.

Tonoyan, Vartuhi. “The Bright and Dark Sides of Trust: Corruption and Entrepreneurship - A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Emerging vs. Market Economies.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Trust and Entrepreneurial Behavior in East and West European Economies: Concepts, Developments, and Comparative Aspects. University of Bremen, September 2003.

Sampson, Robert, Jeffrey Morenoff, and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. “Assessing ‘Neighborhood Effects’: Social Processes and New Directions in Research.” Annual Review of Sociology 28 (2002): 443-78.

Scholz, John. “Trust, Taxes, and Compliance.” Chapter 6 in Trust and Governance . Edited by Braithwaite and Levi. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. ISBN: 9780871541352.

Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. Sorensen. “Parental Networks, Social Closure, and Mathematics Learning: A Test of Coleman’s Social Capital Explanation of School Effects.” American Sociological Review 64 (October 1999): 661-81.

Hall, Peter Dobkin. “Historical Statistics of the United States Chapter on Voluntary, Nonprofit, and Religious Entities and Activities: Underlying Concepts, Concerns, and Dilemmas.” Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, November 1998.

Verba, Sidney. “Cross-National Survey Research: The Problem of Credibility.” In Comparative Methods in Sociology: Essays on Trends and Applications . Edited by Ivan Vallier. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. ISBN: 9780520024885.