Social Capital and Quality of Democracy Revisited in a Comparative Perspective
Capital Social e Qualidade da Democracia revisitados numa Perspectiva Comparada
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https://doi.org/10.21814/perspectivas.52Keywords:
Quality of Democracy, Social Accountability, Social Capital, Satisfaction with Democracy, Trust in Political InstitutionsAbstract
To what extent, if any, does social capital contribute to the democratic formation of citizens´' attitudes? It is a major influence among several others or just a minor one when it comes to forming political attitudes? This paper provides an empirical answer to these questions, drawing from the 2010 European Social Survey questionnaire. Its first section includes a discussion about the quality of democacy in the culturalist approach of Political Science. The following section addresses the operationalization of the concept of quality of democracy and its main dimensions, with particular attention to social accountability. It then seeks to relate the concepts of social accountability as a pivotal dimension of the quality of democracy and social capital as formulated By Robert Putman. We used a multivariate regression analysis to test our hypotheses, which focus on whether the components that make up social capital have a differentiated impact on the formation of political attitudes, i.e. on the degree of satisfaction with democracy and trust in political institutions in old and new democracies.
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Em que medida, se em alguma, o capital social contribui para a formação democrática das atitudes dos cidadãos? Será uma grande influência entre vários outros ou apenas uma influência menor quando se trata de formar atitudes políticas? Este artigo fornece uma resposta empírica para estas questões, com base no questionário do European Social Survey de 2010. A primeira secção do artigo inclui uma discussão sobre a qualidade da democracia na abordagem culturalista da Ciência Política. A secção seguinte aborda a operacionalização do conceito de qualidade da democracia e as suas principais dimensões, com especial atenção à responsabilidade social. Em seguida, procura relacionar os conceitos de responsabilidade social como uma dimensão essencial da qualidade da democracia e do capital social, conforme formulado por Robert Putman. Utilizamos uma análise de regressão multivariada para testar nossas hipóteses, que focam se os componentes que compõem o capital social têm um impacto diferenciado na formação de atitudes políticas, ou seja, no grau de satisfação com a democracia e confiança nas instituições políticas nas antigos e nas novas. democracias.
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