Introduction / Robert D. Putnam and Kristin A. Goss
Great Britain: the role of government and the distribution of social capital / Peter A. Hall
United States: bridging the privileged and the marginalized? / Robert Wuthnow
United States: from membership to advocacy / Theda Skocpol
France: old and new civic and social ties in France / Jean-Pierre Worms
Decline of social capital?: the German case / Claus Offe and Susanne Fuchs
From civil war to civil society: social capital in Spain from the 1930s to the 1990s / Victor Pérez-Díaz
Sweden: social capital in the social democratic state / Bo Rothstein
Australia: making the lucky country / Eva Cox
Broadening the basis of social capital in Japan / Takashi Inoguchi
Conclusion / Robert D. Putnam
