Product Description: Generalized trust - faith in people you don't know who are likely to be different from you - is a value that leads to many positive outcomes for a society. Yet some scholars now argue that trust is lower when we are surrounded by people who are different from us...read more

Product Description: Corruption flouts rules of fairness and gives some people advantages that others don't have. Corruption is persistent; there is little evidence that countries can escape the curse of corruption easily-or at all. Instead of focusing on institutional reform, Uslaner suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality and low levels of generalized trust (which are not readily changed) and poor policy choices (which may be more likely to change)...read more

Product Description: The concept of social capital has been used by political scientists to explain both the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the decline of social cohesion in Western societies. This edited collection presents the latest quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to Western models of society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This timely volume puts emphasis on the effect of social capital on everyday life: how the routines of daily life lead people to get involved in their communities. Focussing on its micro-level causes and consequences, the book's international contributors argue that social capital is fundamentally concerned with the value of social networks and about how people interact with each other...read more

Product Description: "Institutionalism" is the buzzword of the 1980s and 1990s in the social sciences. What is new in the contemporary analysis of institutions and what does it offer to the study of social order? In this book a distinguished group of social scientists drawn from political science, economics, and sociology, explore this question and show us how different theoretical approaches to institutional analysis can be joined to build a more thorough understanding of institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Probes incivility among U.S. lawmakers, demonstrating why institutional reform will not solve gridlock in Washington

Product Description: This study illustrates the connection between foreign policy making and domestic politics. The text covers Congress, public opinion and interest groups, and emphazises the tensions inherent in democratic governance. It also considers the implications of the demise of the Soviet Union for democratic foreign policy formation and examines the impact of the 1992 Presidential and Congressional elections on foreign policy decision making...read more

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