Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. Professor Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world's highest accolades for a political scientist. Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government.
He has written fourteen books, translated into twenty languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. His previous book, Making Democracy Work, was praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber." Both Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone are among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide in the last half century.
今天看完了从政治学角度研究社会资本问题的名著---《使民主运转起来》,感觉还不错,不光大量的调查资料让人敬佩和信服,但就对问题的分析来说也是非常精辟的。这本书虽然翻译的不是很好,但还是非常容易理解的,得出的结论也很有说服力。本书的缘起是作者抓住意大利开始地...
评分帕特南作为有名的政治学家,对于“公民社会”“公民参与”这样的话题是情有独钟的。他的《独自打保龄球》就描绘出美国人对于他们一向热衷的保龄球这样的社团活动的热情似乎正在下降了。人与人横向关系的疏远一定程度上动摇了稳固的社会资本,对于以此为基石的美国共和民主政治...
评分从政治制度的变革入手,考察意大利各地区制度绩效,发现南北差异,导入公民性、公民性研究,追溯中世纪历史,城市共和国遗产作用远大于其他因素。首倡政治发展中的社会资本研究。规范与实证研究功力相当。
评分 评分Web 2.0与民主绩效 ---读帕特南《使民主运转起来》有感 刚看到书名“使民主运转起来”的时候就有点不太明白,看完才知道民主运转讲得是民主绩效,换种说法,即按书中所说一个好的民主的政府不仅需要考虑它的公民的需求(即,回应性),而且要对这...
与其说是一本民主和政治学的经典著作,不如说是社会科学方法论的典范作品。其在智识上的讨论颇有些浅尝辄止,但确实找对了问题——这也得益于作者相对宽阔的视野和智识上的滋养。另外,他也提供了一个范例,如何将思想界的问题与实证对接,如何同时贡献到学科研究和地域研究。它在学科史和方法上的地位,应当是大于这本书的内容本身的。
评分从视野格局和经验材料上讲堪称完美。唯一有一个不太对劲之处是微观的机制和宏观的相关之间的联系似乎论证得不够强。微观的社会资本和微观的合作之间的因果机制很清楚,宏观的地区civic tradition和地区治理效率之间的相关也很清楚,但是小的association的作用如何传导到宏观的民主化呢?public-spiritedness&egalitarian value spawned by networks of civic engagement大概是传导带,可是具体怎么传导的没有详细说明。不过当然开创性作品也不能把事情都做完了……
评分great thoughts. However, Putnam didn't rule out the possibility that the prevalence of civic associations in Northern Italy is not as the result of the region's better economic conditions.
评分it's such an honor to have witnessed a history like that and figured something more than history out of it.though the binary opposition could sometimes went too far to be persuasive. an excellent research of how participant observation could be done.
评分去年被要求看的书(太长+数据太多=不看)今年刷了几个书评了事。关于社会资本不同导致同样下放权利到南北意大利不同地方政府,皿煮运转的不同。好像放到我国做实验也会是差不多的结果嘛,把南北对调一下,我国南北经济意识各方面都跟意大利南北是反的。
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