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Book SynopsisInstitutional Capital documents and explores the new forms of relationships developing between local governments and organized elements of civil society in post-Communist Poland.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Making Post-Communist Democracies Work: State-Society Relations in Post-Communist Europe; Civil Society and State Performance; Civic Traditions, Economic Development and the State Variation in Performance within Regimes; Explaining Performance; Link Chapter 2 Measuring Institutional Capital and Research Methods: Analytic Conceptualization and Terminology; Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Institutional Capital and Performance; Operationalizing Institutional Capital; State Contributions to Institut Chapter 3 The State and Institutional Capital: Governing the Post-Communist City: Components of the Local State's Institutional Capital; Discursiveness; Information Gathering and Dissemination Strategies; Bureaucratizing Public In formation; Institutionalizin Chapter 4 Raising Institutional Capital in Civil Society: Components of Civil Society's Institutional Capital; Third Sector Heterogeneity: Heterogeneity of Group Type and Size; Heterogeneity of Funding Sources; Horizontal Links among Activists; Activity Acros Chapter 5 New Stocks of Institutional Capital and Prospects for Performance: Discourse and Protest in Krakow's Stock of Institutional Capital; Institutional Capital: Continuity or Change?; Repertorial Continuity; Repertorial Expansion or Contraction?; Krakow' Chapter 6 Putting Institutional Capital to Work: The Political Economy of Development Planning and Waste Disposal: Economic Planning and Waste Disposal Under State Socialism and Today: From Autarky to Governance; New Conditions and Strategies; Managing Waste Chapter 7 Governing Women: Domestic Violence and the Politics of Institutionalizing Women's Social Rights: Social Rights and Gender in Post-Communist Poland: Family Law and Domestic Violence; Domestic Violence in Poland; The Institutional Terrain of Gen Chapter 8 Historical Sources of Institutional Capital: Development, Class Composition and Civic Traditions in Krakow; Development; Self-Government, Class, and Civic Traditions; Development in the 19th Century; Class and Civic Traditions in the 19th Century; C Chapter 9 Opposition Movements Influences on Institutional Capital: Krakow: The Intellectual's City in a Worker's Era; Workers' Srodowiska; Church-based Srodowiska; Student Srodowiska; Intelligentsia Srodowiska; State-Society Relations Chapter 10 Institutional Capital and Post-Communist State Performance: Beyond Civic Traditions; State Initiative; Embedding the State: Creating Partners in Performance; Two Types of Post-Communist Performance; Final Remarks Chapter 11 Appendices: Groups Surveyed; Interviewees; Individual Questionnaire; Group Questionnaire; City Elite Survey Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index
