Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy

Anirudh Krishna

Paper, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12571-0
$28.00 / £16.50

August, 2002
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12570-3
$83.50 / £49.00

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 Action

4. Measuring Social Capital

5. 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 Entrepreneurs

8. Conclusion

Appendices

Related Subjects

• Political Theory

About the Author

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

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