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Making social science work across space and time: a critical reflection on Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work.
American Political Science Review, June, 1996 by Tarrow, Sidney
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Robert Putnam's 'Making Democracy Work' qualitatively and quantitatively examines how democracy works in different sociopolitical contexts. His analysis is operationalized in the the northern and southern portions of Italy. By identifying the regions' history as the source of their differences, Putnam used the quantitative data he had collected to support a framework of historical development of North and South. This historical reconstruction is based also on qualitative data and inferences about the values in the regions whose historical validity are questionable.
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