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Politics And Prayer In West Perrine, Florida : Civic Social Capital And The Black Church, Susan Oltman Fink
Politics And Prayer In West Perrine, Florida : Civic Social Capital And The Black Church, Susan Oltman Fink
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis traces the mechanisms and sources responsible for the generation of civic social capital (a set of shared norms and values that promote cooperation between groups, enabling them to participate in the political process) by black churches in West Perrine, Florida. Data for this thesis includes over fifty interviews and participant observations, archival records, newspaper articles, and scholarly journals.
Despite the institutional racism of the first half of the twentieth century, many blacks and whites in Perrine developed levels of trust significant enough to form an integrated local governing body, evidence of high levels of csc. At mid-century, when …
The Political Party System And Democratic Crisis In Bolivia, Jennifer Marie Cyr
The Political Party System And Democratic Crisis In Bolivia, Jennifer Marie Cyr
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Using Kenneth Roberts’ (2002) party-society linkages framework, this study examined the reasons for the decline of the political party system in Bolivia after 2000. The political party system that emerged in 1985 was connected to society primarily through clientelist-based linkages. The economic and political model adopted after the transition to democracy severely debilitated the party system’s capacity to forge linkages with society beyond clientelism.
Using interviews, survey data, and primary and secondary documents, the study demonstrated that prolonged economic recession and social change revealed the weaknesses of the linkages connecting the political party system with Bolivian society. It concluded that …