Social Capital and Political Participation in Latin America

This paper explores the role of social capital and other causal factors in promoting political participation in Latin America. I attempt to assess the rates of political participation as well as stocks of social capital in Latin America when set in global perspective. I endeavor to determine the importance of social capital for promoting political involvement, in particular for gauging its relative weight as an explanatory factor. To do so, I analyze individual-level data drawn from the 1999-2001 wave of the World Values Survey. 2004. Authors: Joseph L. Klesner and Kenyon College

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Contributor: Carmen Villegas Caballero
Published Date: April 28, 2008