id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ls3eci5rsrbrve3efbykcxuqly Nicholas Terpstra 'Republics by Contract': Civil Society, Social Capital, and the 'Putnam Thesis' in the Papal Stat 2006 .htm text/html 8908 438 52 Nicholas Terpstra 'Republics by Contract': Civil Society, Social Capital, and the 'Putnam Thesis' in the Papal State 'Republics by Contract': Civil Society, Social Capital, and the 'Putnam Thesis' in the Papal Stat Yet he also uses history, and in one of his studies, Making Democracy Work (1993), Putnam seeks to identify the most "successful" regions in modern Italy, and the historical causes for to the leading communes of the Papal State may have generated forms of social capital and civil society better adapted to 'surviving' absolutism than Florentine and Venetian republicanism were. Making Democracy Work (1993) is more about civil society, while Bowling Alone (2000) is more about social capital. In contrast to Brucker, Muir thought that civil society did emerge from the medieval and renaissance republics, and did weather the capital-draining early modern period of uncivil Nicholas Terpstra, 'Republics by Contract': Civil Society, Social Capital, and the 'Putnam Thesis' in the Papal Stat, "Storicamente", 2 (2006), no. ./cache/work_ls3eci5rsrbrve3efbykcxuqly.htm ./txt/work_ls3eci5rsrbrve3efbykcxuqly.txt