Within the context of the public goods model, this paper evaluates the theory of hegemonic stability for the post World War II period using quantitative methods. The results support the theory of a benevolent hegemon. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
The concepts of social capital and postmaterialist values both have respectable genealogies in the social sciences. They are often seen to covary in particular ways, but these relationships are generally considered spurious, attributable to various intervening or antecedent variables. This paper seeks to specify an independent and direct relationship between generalized trust (akin to "bridging" social capital) and postmaterialism on the one hand, and particularized trust (akin to "bonding" social capital) and materialism on the other. In order to test these claims and properly control for rival hypotheses, a hierarchical generalized linear model is employed using data from the fourth wave of the World Values Survey (released May 2004). The data provide strong support for both posited relationships. In light of these results, opportunities for future research are enumerated and discussed. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
This paper (1) addresses questions of the "scientificity" of the social sciences and (2) argues for the incorporation of the concept of the imaginary into social and political analysis. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
The paper develops a political theory of endogeneous institutional change that emphasizes associational relations within families of institutions and the interactive properties of a given institutional mix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
The study finds causations between the micro level of individuals' social capital and the macro level of politics, correlations among different tiers of social capital, and combined effects of social capital elements at the macro political life. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]