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Institutional Capital: Building Post-Communist Government Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2007

Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
Affiliation:
University of Miami
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Institutional Capital: Building Post-Communist Government Performance. By Laura Brunell. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. 270p. $59.00. cloth, $39.00 paper

This book makes an important theoretical contribution by opening the “black box” linking social capital and democratic performance. Spurred by Robert Putnam's observed correlation between social capital and budget promptness (Making Democracy Work, 1995), Laura Brunell seeks to explain the causal mechanisms connecting a vibrant civil society to good government performance.

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 652 - 653
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© 2007 American Political Science Association

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