France, Social Capital and Political Activism

Download or read book France, Social Capital and Political Activism written by Francesca Vassallo and published by French Politics, Society and Culture. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France, Social Capital and Political Activism deals with the theme of political participation in France, focusing on conventional and unconventional forms of political activism over the last three decades. Measures of social integration and political involvement are used to question the validity of social capital theory. The French model of political participation supports the interpretation that countries do not need necessarily to focus on the development of social capital to increase people's political involvement and consequently the quality of their participatory democracies.