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100			_aMayer, Peter
245			_aHuman development and civic community in India: making democracy perform
260			_c2001
300			_ap.684-92
362			_a24 Feb
520			_aThis paper tries to show that the central methodology of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work can be fruitfully applied to the study of the Indian states. It reports some of the results of the author's replication of Putnam's Italian study for the states. While a clear relationship can be demonstrated between state government performance in development and levels of civic engagement, it is harder to replicate Putnam's findings concerning the crucial role of social capital. In the Indian context, levels of education are more important and the implications of this unexpected result are addressed. - Reproduced
650			_aDemocracy
650			_aHuman development
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a47735
999			_c47735 _d47735