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Democracy and Social Capital: A Czech-American Dialog

Seminar "Democracy and Social Capital: A Czech-American Dialog"

1 June 2006
9:00am – 5:00pm
American Embassy
Woodrow Wilson Center
Tržiště 13, Malá Strana
Prague, Czech Republic

The concept of social capital has been widely used in analyses of democracy in the United States, and of processes and prospects of democratization in the “New Europe.” But what, precisely, is social capital? How important is social capital for democratic existence? How best to measure social capital? It is the goal of this symposium to address such questions in a comparative context.

The symposium will feature panel and roundtable discussions, as well as keynote lectures by:

Eric Uslaner
(Professor of Government and Politics,The University of Maryland)
Trust and Corruption in Transition

Petr Matějů
(Professor and Director of the Department for Education and Social Stratification, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
The Role of Social Capital During the Post-communist Transformation

Please RSVP at hladikovam@state.gov or phone 257 022 002 or 257 535 160.

For more information please click here (.pdf)