Social Capital in Eastern Europe Poland an Exception? /

• Main Author: Lasinska, Katarzyna. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2013.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social Sciences.; Comparative Politics.; Social Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00523-8

Katarzyna Lasinska deals with the consequences of democratic transitions in Middle and Eastern Europe. By selecting specific sets of countries according to the main explanations such as Catholic tradition, transformation process and communist legacies, the author identifies key factors explaining pa...

Table of Contents:

• Exploring social capital in Poland
• Social capital: conceptional framework and empirical findings
• Communist legacy and systemic transition
• Catholicism and social capital
• Catholicism and social capital in Poland is a comparative perspective - empirical evidence
• Is social capital building different in Poland?.- Why is Poland an exception among post-communist societies?.