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This paper examines and evaluates arguments about how, and in what way, various societal institutions foster higher levels of social capital across the industrial democracies and the American states. The principal finding is that, contrary to much e [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While civil society and social capital are so often considered essential to democratic consolidation, in Russia, the emergence of bad civil society and the failure of social capital to adhere are increasingly deterring democratic development. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study shows that consensus types of democracies are more effective than majoritarian democracies in producing bridging social capital in heterogeneous environments. It also incorporates the effects of regime longevity into the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liberalism now suffers from excess individualism. Citizens believe they owe nothing that they did not contract to give. I argue that our obligations to our fellow citizens arise not from individual contract, but from systemic commitments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]