<aside> ❓ 1. What difference does it make for democracy if social capital is in decline? (PPE 2015) 2. Do successful democracies need a supportive political culture? (PPE 2014)

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Political culture

• *Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba, (1963). The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. London: Sage. Chapters 1 and 13. JA74.ALM
• Citrin, Jack, and Laura Stoker. 2018. “Political Trust in a Cynical Age.” Annual Review of Political Science 21(1): 49–70.
• Collier, Paul. 2017. “Culture, Politics, and Economic Development.” Annual Review of Political Science 20(1): 111–25.
• Dalton, Russell (2019). Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies (7th edition). Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press. JF2011.DAL. Chapter 12.
• *Dalton, R. J. and Welzel, C. (2014) The Civic Culture Transformed. New York: Cambridge University Press. JA75.7.CIV 2014 Introduction.
• Heath, Anthony et al. 2018. Social Progress in Britain. OUP. (Chapter 8)
• John, Peter, Edward Fieldhouse, and Hanhua Liu (2011) “How Civic is the Civic Culture? Explaining Community Participation Using the 2005 English Citizenship Survey.” Political Studies 59: 230–252.
• Wuttke, Alexander, Konstantin Gavras, and Harald Schoen. 2020. “Have Europeans Grown Tired of Democracy? New Evidence From Eighteen Consolidated Democracies, 1981–2018.” British Journal of Political Science 60.
• Zilinsky, Jan. 2019. “Democratic Deconsolidation Revisited: Young Europeans Are Not Dissatisfied with Democracy.” Research and politics 6(1).

Social Capital

• Li, Yaojun, Neil Smith and Peter Dangerfield. 2018. “Social Trust.” In British Social Attitudes 35
• Minkoff, D. 2016. “The Payoffs of Organizational Membership for Political Activism in Established Democracies.” American Journal of Sociology 122(2): 425–68.
• Putnam, Robert D, and Shaylyn Romney Garrett. 2020. The Upswing. Simon & Schuster.
• Schwadel, P, and M Stout. 2012. “Age, Period and Cohort Effects On Social Capital.” Social Forces 91(1): 233–252.