Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 568-590 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | German Politics |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 2 Nov 2011 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
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Keywords
- Germany
- social capital
- Putnam thesis
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Social capital and political support: a reassessment of the Putnam thesis in East and West Germany. / Campbell, Ross.
In: German Politics, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2011, p. 568-590.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Social capital and political support: a reassessment of the Putnam thesis in East and West Germany
AU - Campbell, Ross
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A sizeable scholarly literature has generally uncovered weak, statistically trivial connections between social capital and political support, in spite of its logical appeal. Much of this research, however, has adopted an overly restrictive research design. It has overwhelmingly focused on the impact of social trust on political trust, from which broad inferences about the utility of the social capital perspective have been made. Rarely, however, has the impact of social capital been systematically assessed on indicators of political support which are more diffuse in character.
AB - A sizeable scholarly literature has generally uncovered weak, statistically trivial connections between social capital and political support, in spite of its logical appeal. Much of this research, however, has adopted an overly restrictive research design. It has overwhelmingly focused on the impact of social trust on political trust, from which broad inferences about the utility of the social capital perspective have been made. Rarely, however, has the impact of social capital been systematically assessed on indicators of political support which are more diffuse in character.
KW - Germany
KW - social capital
KW - Putnam thesis
U2 - 10.1080/09644008.2011.606318
DO - 10.1080/09644008.2011.606318
M3 - Article
VL - 20
SP - 568
EP - 590
JO - German Politics
JF - German Politics
SN - 0964-4008
IS - 4
ER -