Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect
Making Democracy Work Better: Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect
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让民主更好地发挥作用：调解结构、社会资本和民主前景
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10.5860/choice.37-5944
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1999
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R. Couto
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R. Couto
20世纪80年代的十年标志着市场资本主义的胜利。当形形色色的政治家试图以私营企业的形象重塑政府时，他们指望志愿者部门成为盟友，以减轻削减社会福利公共政策的人力成本。这本书详细介绍了阿巴拉契亚市场资本主义的“野蛮一面”，并解释了调解结构在减轻这种野蛮一面方面所发挥的社会、政治和经济作用。介绍了23个这样的调解结构的工作--以社区为基础的组织，它们为提供社会安全网、打击环境破坏、并提升阿巴拉契亚居民的教育和工作技能--理查德·库托从他们的成功和缺点中提炼出了实用的教训。库托认为，在衡量21世纪世纪的公民社会和公共政策时，应该使用一套更广泛的民主层面。他指出，当调解结构提供并倡导新形式和更多的社会资本时，调解结构促进了减少不平等和增加社区纽带的民主前景-社会资本是我们作为社区成员相互投资的公共物品和道德资源。|研究以社区为基础的组织，联系个人和政府之间的理论关系，并评估这种关系如何发挥了在美国的教育和医疗保健的公共政策。
The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details the "savage side" of market capitalism in Appalachia and explains the social, political, and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating it. Profiling the work of twenty-three such mediating structures--community-based organizations that battled to provide social safety nets, fight environmental assaults, and upgrade the education and job skills of Appalachian residents--Richard Couto distills the practical lessons to be found in their successes and shortcomings. Couto argues that a broader set of democratic dimensions be used in taking the measure of civil society and public policy in the twenty-first century. He shows that mediating structures promote the democratic prospect of reduced inequality and increased communal bonds when they provide and advocate for new forms and increased amounts of social capital--the public goods and moral resources that we invest in one another as members of a community. |Examines the theoretical relationship between community-based organizations that link individuals and government and assesses how this relationship has played out in American public policy on education and health care.