Social capital worldwide: Potential for democratization or stabilizer of authoritarian rule?

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 737-757

  Roßteutscher, Sigrid ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Authoritarian regime; Autocracy; Cross national comparison; Defective democracy; Democracy; Democratic citizenship; Social capital; Social participation; Social trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749104390     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764209350835     Document Type: Article

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