Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Gabriel Badescu and Eric M. Uslaner
  • Trust networks and democratic transition : Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s / Hajdeja Iglic
  • Communist societies, the velvet revolution, and weak ties : the case of East Germany / Henk Flap and Beate V"olker
  • Social networks in Russian politics / Nicolas Hayoz and Victor Sergeyev
  • Social networks, civil society, and the prospects for consolidating Russia's democratic transition / James L. Gibson
  • Trust and civic engagement in East and West / Eric M. Uslaner
  • Social capital and support for democracy in the post-communist states / Kathleen M. Dowley and Brian D. Silver
  • Social trust and democratization in the post-communist societies / Gabriel Badescu
  • Civic engagement in a post-communist state / Jeffery J. Mondak and Adam F. Gearing
  • Why post-communist citizens do not join voluntary organizations? / Marc Morj Howard
  • Social capital in Poland / Jerzy Bartkowski
  • What does social capital add to democratic values? / Richard Rose and Craig Weller
  • Legacies and conflicts : the challenges to social capital in the democratic transition / Eric M. Uslaner and Gabriel Badescu.