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1. Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life

   Edited by PAUL DEKKER, ERIC M. USLANER

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This timely volume puts emphasis on the effect of social capital on everyday life: how the routines of daily life lead people to get involved in their communities. Focussing on its micro-level causes and consequences, the book's international contributors argue that social capital is fundamentally...

   Published April 30th 2006 by Routledge
2. Social Capital and the Transition to Democracy

   Edited by Gabriel Badescu, Eric Uslaner

   Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

   The concept of social capital has been used by political scientists to explain both the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the decline of social cohesion in Western societies. This edited collection presents the latest quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to...

   Published June 4th 2003 by Routledge