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100	1		_aSOLT, Frederick _921974
245	1	0	_aCivics or Structure? : _brevisiting the origins of democratic quality in the Italian regions
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _cJanuary 2004
520	3		_aWhat determines the responsiveness and effectiveness of governments in meeting their citizens' needs? Based on his 1993 study of the twenty Italian regions, Robert Putnan argued that 'civic community', a self-reinforcing syndrome of social engagement and political participation, is the explanation. A re-examination of Putnan's data reveals little evidence of such a syndrome, but confirms that where more citizens participate in politics outside of networks of clientelistic exchange, more effective democratic government results. To discern the causes of variation in this self-motivated political participation, I test Putnam's measures of social engagement against aspects of Italian socio-economic structure. Economic development and the historical distribution of land, not social engagement, are found to be powerful predictors of self-motivated political participation and in turn democratic quality
773	0	8	_tBritish Journal of Political Science _g34, 1, p. 123-135 _dCambridge : Cambridge University Press, January 2004 _xISSN 0007-1234 _w
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998			_a20051004 _b1748^b _cAnaluiza
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c13740 _d13740
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