Social Capital, Civic Engagement and the Performance of Local Self-Government in Azerbaijan

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The author would like to acknowledge the generous support received from the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) Azerbaijan—a program of the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF). This project was completed through the CRRC Publication Fellowship Program, with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The views of this article do not necessarily represent the views of CRRC, EPF or the Carnegie Corporation of New York and are wholly those of the author.

Mamedova et al., Local Governments in Eastern Europe, in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Tofiqli, “Some Problems of State Policy Related to Municipalities.”

Azerbaijan belediyyeleri, 18.

Barber, “From Jihad vs. McWorld,” 27–30; Heinrich, Assessing and Strengthening Civil Society Worldwide; Franke, Measurement of Social Capital.

Putnam, Bowling Alone, 19.

Bourdieu, “Ökonomisches Kapital, kulturelles Kapital, soziales Kapital,” 249.

Shveri, “Teoreticheskaya Sotsiologiya James Coleman,” 32.

Fukuyama, “Social Capital and Civil Society,” 2.

Franke, Measurement of Social Capital.

Sattarov et al., Civil Society in Azerbaijan, 19.

Gasanov, Formation of Civil Society in Conditions of Transformation, 205.

Putnam, Making Democracy Work, 175.

Fukuyama, “Social Capital and Civil Society.”

Sattarov et al., Civil Society in Azerbaijan 8, 48.

<www.worldvaluessurvey.org> (accessed 5 May 2008).

Putnam, Bowling Alone, 337.

Ibid., 338.

Banfield, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, 85.

Putnam, Making Democracy Work, 173.

Ibid., 38.

Putnam, Bowling Alone, 338.

Interview with Ziyafet Mamedov, a participant in the focus group in Masalli and chairman of the Masalli district's Chahirli municipality, 28 August 2007.

Mamedova et al., Local Governments in Eastern Europe, in the Caucasus and Central Asia, 385.

Azerbaijan National Non-Governmental Organizations Forum, 23.

The analogical question asked in the CIVICUS project has been positively answered by 21% of respondents, which insignificantly differs from our data.

Private philanthropy in Azerbaijan emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The reason for it was the so-called “oil boom” that helped oil magnates H. Z. Tagiyev, M. Nagiyev, M. Mukhtarov, Sh. Asadullayev and others to maintain a system of support in the fields of education, health protection and culture. They also helped poor people and sent talented youth to leading European countries to obtain an education.

Interview with a participant in the Matanat Askerova focus group, 9 August 2007, in Baku.

Focus group interview, 28 August 2007, in Masalli.

Mamedova et al., Local Governments in Eastern Europe, in the Caucasus and Central Asia, 396.

Manual for Councils in Azerbaijan, 62.

Mamedova et al., Local Governments in Eastern Europe, in the Caucasus and Central Asia, 379–80.

Mahalla committees or councils of elders have been created and function in some municipalities of Azerbaijan.

Interview, 9 August 2007, in Baku.

Interview, 1 August 2007, in Baku.

Interview, 16 August 2007, in Khachmaz.

Interview, 28 August 2007, in Masalli.

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