My contribution to the literature on democratization of Eastern Europe
and my theory of how to make democracy work

I. Chapter 1 Making post-Communist Democracies Work
    A.  starting point:  Putnam - civil society vital
    but history against E Europe here
    B.  better theory
    state structuralism
    Evan's "embedded autonomy"
    see state and civil society as working together (or not)
    C.  how can we make it more likely that state and civil society will cooperate
    through raising institutional capital
    D.  stocks of institutional capital and regime type (15)
    E.  selection of cases
    the virtues of sub-national comparisons



    Krakow
    Photo:  Dennis Chamberlain
                                             
    Lodz
   
   
    F.  funding the research

II.  Chapter 2 Institutional Capital
    A.  elaboration of definition, measurement
    "operationalization"
    B.  state contributions to institutional capital:  discursiveness, collaboration, cohesion
    C.  civil society contributions to institutional capital:  third sector heterogeneity, repertorial range
    D.  methods
    "field work"
    living there
    archival
    survey
    interview

III.  Chapter 3 The State and Instiutional Capital
   A. presents my measures of each city's state measures of IC
       
   B.  discursiveness
        collaboration
          Krakow office for cooperation with NGOs
          Lodz office for cooperation with NGOs
        cohesion
          stablity
          political ideology
          bureaucratic autonomy

    C.  Why these measures?
    D.  How is each measured?
   
IV.  Chapter 4 Raising Institutional Capital in Civil Society
    A.  presents my measures of each city's civil society measures of IC

    B.  third sector heterogeneity
         repertorial range

   C.  Why these measures?
   
   D.  How is measured?
   
V.  Chapter 5 New Stocks of Institutional Capital and Prospects for Performance
    describes each city's stock of IC overall and how it is likely to affect
    government performance
    speculates about what kind of performance will have in the
    three issue-specific case studies

VI.  Chapter 6 Putting Institutional Capital to Work
    case studies of economic development planning and re-siting of waste disposal facilities

VII.  Chapter 7 Governing Women: Domestic Violence and the Politics of Institutionalizing Women's Social Rights
    description of social rights, domestic violence and family law in contemporary Poland
    description of how each city has responded to domestic violence
    using its stock of institutional capital

VIII.  Chapter 8 Historical Source of Institutional Capital
    economic development, class composition, civic traditions

VIX.  Opposition Movement Influences on Institutional Capital
    Solidarity, important milieus of Solidarity activity  in each city
    how these developed specific repertoires of contention, leadership bases,
    and political cultures that influence the post-Communist period

X.  Institutional Capital and Post-Communist State Performance
    summary of my findings
    how they improve upon Putnam
    improve our understanding of how civic traditions affect government performance
    and change over time