Civic Culture and Social Capital

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Who defines the civic culture as a 'pluralistic culture based on communication and persuasion, a culture of consensus and diversity, a culture that permitted change but moderated it'?
Almond and Verba
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In what sort of culture are citizens 'active yet passive; involved yet not too involved; influential, yet deferential', according to Almond and Verba?
civic
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What can citizens not have in the civic culture?
compete loyalty
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Who says that we need 'limited polarization'?
Parsons
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Why is the USA not an example of the civic culture?
it has a 'strain of immobility which often pervades the American political process'
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Why is Mexico not an example of the civic culture?
lack of experience of political input and rejection of political output
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Who finds that generalized reciprocity is associated with better governmental performance but social connectedness is not, in a study of the US state governments?
Stephen Knack
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Who were the first people to use the term 'social capital'?
Putnam and Coleman
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Who believed that social capital was the solution to collective action problems?
Putnam
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Who found that social capital affects democracy and democracy affects social capital?
Paxton
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Who says that social capital resides in relationships between individuals rather than in individuals themselves?
Coleman
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What are Paxton's requirements for positive associations?
objective associations and reciprocal, trusting, involving emotion
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Who made the distinction between bridging and bonding?
Putnam
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Who found that civic engagement and interpersonal trust are in a tight reciprocal relationship?
Brehm and Rahn
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Orbell and Dawes' virtuous circle due to anticipated cooperation prompting cooperative behaviour is accompanied by what?
a vicious circle
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How big an increase was there in adult voluntary associational behaviour between 1959 and 1990
44%
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What was especially conducive to the spread of informal sociability in Britain?
Pubs
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Who finds that the middle classes have twice as many associations as the working class, but they do not last as long?
Hall
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Who finds that associational life has no impact on political trust but social trust does?
Hall
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