Before Norms: Institutions and Civic Culture

Contents

Contents List of Tables xi List of Figures xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv one. The Issues 1 Part One. Cultural and Social Capital Approaches two. The Protestant Ethic Thesis 33 three. Civic Virtue in Italy and the United States 59 four. Civic Virtue, Growth, and Democratization 98 Part Two. The Institutional Alternative five. Institutions and Voter Turnout 137 six. Institutions and Support for Parties of the Extreme Right (with Karin Volpert) 163 seven. Culture, Institutions, and Political Behavior 188 References 201 Index 225 ...