Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. Professor Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world's highest accolades for a political scientist. Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government.
He has written fourteen books, translated into twenty languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. His previous book, Making Democracy Work, was praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber." Both Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone are among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide in the last half century.
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
4 政治与民主-帕特南「使民主运转起来」通过对意大利1970一场权力下放的制度变革试验长达20多年的观察,根据新制度经济学、集体行动和社会资本理论,逐步研究制度创新和路径依赖、制度绩效及其衡量、制度作为自变量和因变量所分别产生的作用,探究社会环境和历史、政治制度...
評分间接地在月之仙者的推荐下,我看了帕特南的《使民主运转起来》。这本书让我更加感受到西方学者对学术问题单纯地追求,没有华丽文字的堆砌,没有炫耀,有的是实在的思考着的文字跃然纸上。 这本著作建立在作者20年的实地考察基础之上,解决的是制度创新与路劲依赖的辩证关系。意...
大概看瞭兩章,對這個topic不瞭解,所以讀起來不覺得輕鬆。。
评分methodological innovation; explanatory variable, civic community; subnational variation; historical legacy; yet, not necessarily make democracy work, but make institutions work, create a responsive and effective institution.
评分# 如果不是對civic tradition感興趣,這本書可以花三個小時就讀完。經驗材料的編排以當時的標準來看算精細,但是給人感覺是硬套上去的,講曆史淵源沒寫齣活潑勁兒來。這本書還是比較少強調civic tradition對於發展和民主起作用的conditionality,不過civic tradition的幾個要點,平等、包容、替彆人考慮等等,確實就是民主得以運轉的關鍵。現代社會不一定意味著community到society,作者試圖說明在現代社會裏可以建立基於自由平等關係的community。我很喜歡這個理想,今後可以自稱communitarian liberals,哈哈。
评分主要內容和點評有長篇書評涵蓋:http://book.douban.com/review/5378567/ 我不再贅言。方法論和資料纍積上的紮實與耐心讓人驚嘆。一個餘下的興趣點是本書似乎更多地把精力放在國傢—社會關係上,沒有深挖中央政府修憲、成立大區層級的政府,對重新激發意大利北部公民美德傳統、進而鞏固當地民主政體和社會經濟發展的重要意義。全國性的民主政體效率低下、易腐敗、與地方選民疏遠,過於狹隘的地方和社區民主又容易形成民粹思潮和各民主單位間的相互拆颱(在意大利這種地方裙帶和傢族紐帶特強的地方尤其如此)、也解決不瞭全國性的問題,那麼中等層級的民主開放(美國的州、意大利的大區)可能是一個相對摺中的好選擇,在調和地方和全國民主矛盾方麵具有的作用在這本書中得到瞭比較好的驗證。
评分有一陣導師相當迷戀,學部生的小太妹和院生逢人就推薦。這兩年突然就不知道為何就突然從書單上取消瞭。。。
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