| Introduction |
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Organizational Meeting |
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Why Should we Care about Civil Society and Social Capital |
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What Are Civil Society and Social Capital? Concepts and Conceptual Evolution |
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Civil Society and Associations |
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Social Capital, Networks, and Norms |
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What Factors Affect Civil Society and Social Capital? |
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What Effects Do Civil Society and Social Capital Have? |
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Development |
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Regime Change and Democratization |
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Governmental Performance, Public Goods Provision, and State Capacity |
Prospectus for research proposal due |
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International Politics and Globalization |
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Domestic Politics and Policymaking |
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How Do Civil Society and Social Capital Work? Causal Mechanisms |
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Political Voice, Skills, and Participation |
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Trust, Reciprocity, and Obligation |
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How Do We Use These Concepts? Issues of Application and Measurement |
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Operationalization and Hypothesis Testing |
Research proposal due six days after Week #13 |
