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Though they are often spoken of as though they were alike, Emerson and Whitman are very different thinkers. The tensions between them highlight the tensions between individualism and democracy in ways that illuminate both the past and the present. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, considered critical indicators of functioning democracy, are undertheorized. This paper drawsfrom political science, sociology, and public management to develop a more general approach to collective action. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to conduct a comprehensive empirical study of the ways in which social capital is present and facilitates the undemocratic ends of organized crime groups in Russia. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

Religion and democracy mutually define themselves: the emergence of the "spirituality" category in contemporary sociology of religion highlights the very process of the "democratisation of the sacred". ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [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]