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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Studying Institutional Performance | |
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| A Voyage of Inquiry | |
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| Charting the Voyage | |
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| Methods of Inquiry | |
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| Changing the Rules: Two Decades of Institutional Development | |
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| Creating Regional Government | |
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| The Regional Political Elite: "A New Way of Doing Politics" | |
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| The Deepening of Regional Autonomy | |
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| Putting Down Roots: The Region and its Constituents | |
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| Measuring Institutional Performance | |
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| Twelve Indicators of Institutional Performance | |
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| Coherence and Reliability of the Index of Institutional Performance | |
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| Institutional Performance and Constituency Evaluations | |
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| Explaining Institutional Performance | |
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| Socioeconomic Modernity | |
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| The Civic Community: Some Theoretical Speculations | |
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| The Civic Community: Testing the Theory | |
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| Social and Political Life in the Civic Community | |
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| Other Explanations for Institutional Success? | |
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| Tracing the Roots of the Civic Community | |
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| The Civic Legacies of Medieval Italy | |
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| Civic Traditions After Unification | |
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| Measuring the Durability of Civic Traditions | |
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| Economic Development and Civic Traditions | |
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| Social Capital and Institutional Success | |
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| Dilemmas of Collective Action | |
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| Social Capital, Trust, and Rotating Credit Associations | |
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| Norms of Reciprocity and Networks of Civic Engagement | |
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| History and Institutional Performance: Two Social Equilibria | |
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| Lessons from the Italian Regional Experiment | |
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| Appendix A: Research Methods | |
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| Appendix B: Statistical Evidence on Attitude Change among Regional Councilors | |
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| Appendix C: Institutional Performance (1978-1985) | |
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| Appendix D: Regional Abbreviations Used in Scattergrams | |
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| Appendix E: Local Government Performance (1982-1986) and Regional Government Performance (1978-1985) | |
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| Appendix F: Traditions of Civic Involvement (1860-1920) | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |