Laura Brunell

Institutional Capital

Building Post-Communist Government Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Institutional Capital documents and explores the new forms of relationships developing between local governments and organized elements of civil society in post-Communist Poland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780761829560
• ISBN-10: 0761829563
• Artikelnr.: 30886663

Autorenporträt

Laura Brunell received her B.A. in Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics and Government from American University, in Washington, D.C., and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1995-96 to study the development of civil society in post-Communist Poland. She is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Making Post-Communist Democracies Work: State-Society Relations
in Post-Communist Europe; Civil Society and State Performance; Civic
Traditions, Economic Development and the State Variation in Performance
within Regimes; Explaining Performance; Link
Chapter 2 Measuring Institutional Capital and Research Methods: Analytic
Conceptualization and Terminology; Conceptualizing the Relationship Between
Institutional Capital and Performance; Operationalizing Institutional
Capital; State Contributions to Institut
Chapter 3 The State and Institutional Capital: Governing the Post-Communist
City: Components of the Local State's Institutional Capital;
Discursiveness; Information Gathering and Dissemination Strategies;
Bureaucratizing Public In formation; Institutionalizin
Chapter 4 Raising Institutional Capital in Civil Society: Components of
Civil Society's Institutional Capital; Third Sector Heterogeneity:
Heterogeneity of Group Type and Size; Heterogeneity of Funding Sources;
Horizontal Links among Activists; Activity Acros
Chapter 5 New Stocks of Institutional Capital and Prospects for
Performance: Discourse and Protest in Krakow's Stock of Institutional
Capital; Institutional Capital: Continuity or Change?; Repertorial
Continuity; Repertorial Expansion or Contraction?; Krakow'
Chapter 6 Putting Institutional Capital to Work: The Political Economy of
Development Planning and Waste Disposal: Economic Planning and Waste
Disposal Under State Socialism and Today: From Autarky to Governance; New
Conditions and Strategies; Managing Waste
Chapter 7 Governing Women: Domestic Violence and the Politics of
Institutionalizing Women's Social Rights: Social Rights and Gender in
Post-Communist Poland: Family Law and Domestic Violence; Domestic Violence
in Poland; The Institutional Terrain of Gen
Chapter 8 Historical Sources of Institutional Capital: Development, Class
Composition and Civic Traditions in Krakow; Development; Self-Government,
Class, and Civic Traditions; Development in the 19th Century; Class and
Civic Traditions in the 19th Century; C
Chapter 9 Opposition Movements Influences on Institutional Capital:
Krakow: The Intellectual's City in a Worker's Era; Workers' Srodowiska;
Church-based Srodowiska; Student Srodowiska; Intelligentsia Srodowiska;
State-Society Relations
Chapter 10 Institutional Capital and Post-Communist State Performance:
Beyond Civic Traditions; State Initiative; Embedding the State: Creating
Partners in Performance; Two Types of Post-Communist Performance; Final
Remarks
Chapter 11 Appendices: Groups Surveyed; Interviewees; Individual
Questionnaire; Group Questionnaire; City Elite Survey
Chapter 12 Bibliography
Chapter 13 Index