Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 An Introduction
- PART I CREATING SOCIAL CAPITAL
- People I Have Known: The Human Face of Popular Politics
- 2 Creating “We”: Sandinismo and Bridging Social Capital
- 3 Creating “Us” and “Them”: Peronism and Bonding Social Capital
- PART II AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF THE ARGUMENT
- PART III MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK WITHOUT SOCIAL CAPITAL: INSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Works Cited
- Index
3 - Creating “Us” and “Them”: Peronism and Bonding Social Capital
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 An Introduction
- PART I CREATING SOCIAL CAPITAL
- People I Have Known: The Human Face of Popular Politics
- 2 Creating “We”: Sandinismo and Bridging Social Capital
- 3 Creating “Us” and “Them”: Peronism and Bonding Social Capital
- PART II AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF THE ARGUMENT
- PART III MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK WITHOUT SOCIAL CAPITAL: INSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
In the upper left-hand corner was a remote scene framed in a tiny window: an empty beach and a solitary woman looking at the sea. She was staring into the distance as if expecting something, perhaps some faint and faraway summons. In my mind that scene suggested the most wistful and absolute loneliness.
Ernesto Sabato, The TunnelIt is not enough just to teach doctrine. It must be inculcated…. It is not enough just to know what it says. One must understand and feel it. That is why it must be inculcated.
Juan Perón, second class on Political Conduct, Peronist High School, March 29, 1951Well look, let me say it once and for all. I didn't invent Perón … or Evita…. They were born as a reaction to your bad governments … They were summoned as a defence by a people who you and yours submerged in a long path of misery. They were born of you, by you and for you.
Enrique Santos DiscepoloIf one stands on Argentina's south Atlantic shore, one will immediately understand that the first scene above, written by one of Argentina's most renowned novelists, is alluding to Argentina, itself. The country lies literally at the end of the earth. As a colony it “was not only separated by huge distances from the mother-country, but it was also at the periphery of the Spanish Empire, so much so that the Spanish Crown did not even send corregidores to administer the area.
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- Social Capital in Developing DemocraciesNicaragua and Argentina Compared, pp. 68 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010