Social Capital, Welfare State, and Political Legitimacy

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ID3758802
AutoresRoberto Albano (University of Torino, Torino, Italy,, autor correspondente), Filippo Barbera (0000-0002-3103-0531, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
Ano2010
Volume53
Fascículo5
Páginas677-690
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764209350831
OpenAlexW1978207104
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas24

In this article, the authors use the concept of negative social capital to address the contextual impact of micro mechanisms explaining political legitimacy. They first illustrate the effect of social capital with regard to its negative consequences. Then they select four countries, each one a case study of a different welfare regime, and measure the distribution of "time given helping others." The helping behavior is interpreted as a credit slip in social capital vocabulary, and its effect on the confidence in democracy in different welfare regimes is measured. The research findings suggest that helping behavior in weaker welfare regimes has detrimental consequences for political legitimacy. The results are consistent both in a cross-country and in a within-country comparison

Economic system · Economics · Legitimacy · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Social capital · Welfare · Welfare state · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks