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Civil Society and Local Development

2008; UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DOM BOSCO; Volume: 9; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1518-70122008000200010

1984-042X

Henry Veltmeyer,

Social Capital and Networks

has achieved prominence in political and development discourseover the past two decades, particularly in connection with successive waves ofdemocratization, beginning in Latin America and Eastern Europe, and spreading across thedeveloping world. In normative terms, civil society has been widely seen as a crucial agentfor limiting authoritarian government, empowering a popular movement, reducing the sociallyatomizing and unsettling effects of market forces, enforcing political accountability, andimproving the quality and inclusiveness of