Current democratic theory and recent international policy initiatives reveal an intense interest
in the relationship between social capital and democracy. This interest is the most recent …

Women's low rate of participation at the highest levels of politics is an enduring problem in
gender stratification. Previous cross-national research on women in national legislatures has …

Despite a great deal of interest in a possible decline of social capital in the United States,
scholars have not reached a consensus on the trend. This article improves upon previous …

This paper presents a large-scale, comprehensive test of generalized trust across 31 nations.
I pay particular attention to the theory and measurement of voluntary associations in …

In the wake of the Cold War, democracy has gained the status of a mantra. Yet there is no
consensus about how to conceptualize and measure regimes such that meaningful …

Religion and volunteerism are closely linked, but which aspects of religiosity matter most for
volunteering? This article predicts volunteering with a multi-dimensional model of private …

… PAMELA PAXTON is the Linda K. George and John Wilson Professor of Sociology at the
University of Texas at Austin. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of …

The representation of women in national legislatures across the globe remains small.
Theoretical accounts of the variation that does exist have not been fully tested. I test social …

Women's political participation and representation vary dramatically within and between
countries. We selectively review the literature on gender in politics, focusing on women's formal …

This article is an empirical evaluation of the choice of fixed cutoff points in assessing the
root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) test statistic as a measure of goodness-of-fit …