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Social Capital in Eastern Europe

Poland an Exception?

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-1
  2. Exploring social capital in Poland

    • Katarzyna Lasinska
    Pages 19-32
  3. Communist legacy and systemic transition

    • Katarzyna Lasinska
    Pages 63-98
  4. Catholicism and social capital

    • Katarzyna Lasinska
    Pages 99-120
  5. Is social capital building different in Poland?

    • Katarzyna Lasinska
    Pages 187-235
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 9-9

About this book

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 particular findings in Poland. Thank to systematically used comparative research strategy the pitfalls of idiosyncratic argumentation are successfully avoided. Through inclusion of religious tradition as an explanative factor the results go beyond the commonly used East-West comparisons. The author presents a comprehensive picture of complex conditions and different processes for social capital building across Eastern European societies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Katarzyna Lasinska

About the author

Katarzyna Lasinska is a lecturer at the Chair for Political Science and International Comparative Social Research, University of Mannheim.

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