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The Role of the State
The Role of the
State in Social Capital's Production
This section brings together studies on the role of political institutions
and on of the welfare state in social capital's production and accumulation
mechanisms.
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Essential readings
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Further readings
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The section is under construction: suggestions
and comments are always most welcome.
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Essential Readings
• Boix, C., Posner, D. (1998), Social
capital: Explaining Its Origins and Effects on Government Performance,
British Journal of Political Science 28(4), 686-695.
• Brehm, J., Rahn, W. (1997), Individual-Level
evidence for the causes and consequences of Social Capital,
American Journal of Political Science, 41, 3, 999-1023.
• Evans, P. (1996), Government
Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on
Synergy, World Development, 24(6), 1119-1132.
• Hooghe, M., Stolle, D. (eds) (2003),
Generating
Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective,
New York, Palgrave.
• Kumlin, S., Rothstein, B. (2004), Making
and Breaking Social Capital: The Impact of Welfare State Institutions,
Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies.
• Putnam, R. (1993) Making
Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton
University Press, Princeton, trad. it. La tradizione civica nelle
regioni italiane, Mondadori, Milano
• Putnam, R. (ed)
(2002), Democracies
in flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society,
Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Rothstein, B. (2001), Social
Capital in the Social Democratic Welfare State, Politics and
Society, Vol. 29, No. 2, 206-240.
• Rothstein, B., Stolle,
D. (2002), How
Political Institutions Create and Destroy Social Capital: an Institutional
Theory of Generalized Trust, Paper prepared for the 98th meeting
of the American Political Science Association in Boston, Ma.
• Rothstein, B., Uslaner,
E.M. (2005), All
for All: Equality and Social Trust, London School of Economics
Health and Social Care Discussion Paper Number 15.
• Stolle, D. (2003),
The Sources of Social Capital, in Hooghe, M.,
Stolle, D. (eds) (2003), Generating
Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective,
New York, Palgrave.
• Svendsen, G.L.H,
Svendsen, G.T. (2005), The
Creation and Destruction of Social Capital. Entrepreneurship, Co-operative
Movements and Institutions, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Uslaner, E. (1999), Democracy
and Social Capital, in M. Warren, ed., Democracy and Trust,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
• Uslaner, E. (2002),
The
Moral Foundations of Trust, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press.
• Uslaner, E. (2003), Political
Parties and Social Capital, Political Parties or
Social Capital, in R.S. Katz and W.F. Crotty, eds., Handbook
of Political Parties, Sage, forthcoming, 2004.
• Uslaner, E. (2003), Trust, Democracy
and Governance: Can Government Policies Influence Generalized Trust?,
in Hooghe, M., Stolle, D. (eds) (2003), Generating
Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective,
New York, Palgrave.
• Van Oorschot, W., Arts, W., Halman,
L. (2005), Welfare
state effects on social capital and informal solidarity in the European
Union: evidence from the 1999/2000 European Values Study, Policy
& Politics, Volume 33, Number 1, January 2005, pp. 33-54(22).
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Further Readings
• Berggren, N., Jordahl, H. (2004),
Free
to Trust? Economic Freedom and Social Capital, Paper submitted
to the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society and Economic
Science Association.
• Bjørnskov, C. (2003), Corruption
and Social Capital, Aarhus School of Business, Department of
Economics.
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Cecchi, C. (2003), Public
Goods and Public Services. The process of Building Social Capital
in Rural Areas, paper presented to the XL Sidea Annual Conferente,
Padova, 18-20 September.
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Evans, G., Letki, N. (2002), Endogenizing
Social Trust: Democratisation in East-Central Europe, Nuffield
College Working Papers in Politics, 2002-WP9.
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Farrel, H., Knight, J. (2003), Trust,
Institutions and Institutional Change: Industrial Districts and
the Social Capital Hypothesis, Politics and Society, Vol. 31,
No. 4, 537-566.
• Fournier, F. (2000), Social Capital
Formation in Poverty Reduction: Which Role for Civil Society and
the State?, Paper presented at the Symposium
Social Capital
Formation in Poverty Reduction: Which Role for the Civil Society
Organizations and the State?, 28 June 2000, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Gelissen, J., Scheepers, P., Grotenhuis, M. (2003), Welfare
States And Dimensions Of Social Capital: Cross-national Comparisons
Of Social Contacts In European Countries, Paper presented at
the Conference
Sustainable Ties in the Information Society, Tilburg
University, March, 2003.
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John, P., Morris, Z. (2003), What
are the Origins of Social Capital? Results from a Panel Survey of
Young People, Paper prepared for PSA EPOP Conference, Cardiff
September 2003.
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John, P., Morris, Z., Halpern, D. (2003), Social
capital and causal role of socialisation, Paper prepared for
the ESRC Democracy and Participation Conference, University of Essex
17-19 2003.
• Hall,
P.A. (2002), Great Britain: The Role of Government and the Distribution
of Social Capital, in Putnam, R.D. (ed), Democracies
in Flux. The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society,
Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Heller,
P. (1997), Social
Capital as a Product of Class Mobilization and State Intervention:
Industrial Workers in Kerala, India, in Evans, P. (ed), State-Society
Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development, University
of California Press.
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Huang, F. (2003), Social
Capital, Cooperation, and Human Capital, University of Pensilvanya,
Department of Economics, mimeo.
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Huysseune, M. (2003), Institutions and Their Impact
on Social Capital and Civic Culture: The Case of Italy, in Hooghe,
M., Stolle, D. (eds) (2003), Generating
Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective,
New York, Palgrave.
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Kilpatrick, S. (2003), The
Role of VET in Building Social Capital for Rural Community Development
in Australia, Discussion Paper D4/2003, University of Tasmania.
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Knack, S. e Zak, P.J. (2004), Building
Trust: Public Policy, Interpersonal Trust and Economic Development,
forthcoming in the Supreme Court Economic Review.
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Letki, N. (2003), What
Makes Citizens Trustworthy? Individual, Community and Structural
Determinants of Honesty and Civic Morality, Nuffield College
Working Papers in Politics, 2003-WP13.
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Minkoff, D.C. (2001), Producing Social Capital: National
Movements and Civil Society, in Edwards, B., Foley, M.W., Diani,
M. (eds), Beyond
Toqueville, Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative
Perspective, Hanover and London, University Press of New England.
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Mowbray, M. (2004), Beyond
Community Capacity Building: the Effect of Government on Social
Capital, Observatory PASCAL (Place Management, Social Capital
and Learning Regions) Working Paper.
• Nyborg, K. (2003), The Impact of Public Policy on Social
and Moral Norms: Some Examples, Journal of Consumer Policy, Vol.
26, No. 3, September 2003, pp. 259-77.
• Ogilvie, S. (2004), The
Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early
Modern Guilds, CESifo Working Paper No. 1302, October 2004.
• Posner, D. (2003), Civil
Society and the Reconstruction of Failed States, in in Rotberg,
R. (ed.), When States Fail: Causes and Consequences, Princeton,
Princeton University Press.
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Prakash, S. (2000), Social Capital and the Rural Poor: What
Can Civil Actors and Policies Do?, Paper
presented at the Symposium Social
Capital Formation in Poverty Reduction: Which Role for the Civil
Society Organizations and the State?, 28 June 2000, Geneva,
Switzerland.
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Putnam, R.D. (1995), Tuning
In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America,
PS Online: American Political Science Association's Journal of the
Profession.
• Rahn, W, Brehm, J., Carlson, N. (1999), National
Elections as Institutions for Building Social Capital, in Morris,
F. and T. Skocpol (Eds.), Civic Engagement in American Democracy:
Frontiers of Theory and Research. 1999.
• Rothstein, B. (2003), Social
Capital in a Working Democracy. The Causal Mechanism, in Oyvind
Osterud (ed), Power and Democracy: Critical Interventions, London,
Ashgate.
• Sabatini, F. (2005), Social
Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development,
University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Public Economics.
Paper accepted for presentation at the COE/JEPA
(Center of Excellence / Japan Economic Policy Association) Joint
International Conference, "Towards a New Economic Paradigm",
Kobe, Japan, 17-18 December 2005.
• Scheepers, P., Te Grotenhuis, M., Gelissen, J. (2002), Welfare
States And Dimensions Of Social Capital: Cross-national Comparisons
Of Social Contacts In European Countries, European Societies,
Volume 4, Number 2 / June 01, 2002.
• Skocpol, T., Ganz, M., Munson, Z. (2000), A Nation of Organizers:
The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States,
American Political Science Review 94(3), 527-546.
• Sides, J. (1999), It
Takes Two: The Reciprocal Relationship between Social Capital and
Democracy, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 2-5.
• Tarrow, S. (1996), Making Social Science Work Across Space
and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam's Making Democracy
Work, American Political Science Review 90, 389-397.
• Torpe, L. (2003), Social Capital in Denmark: A Deviant Case?,
Scandinavian Political Studies 26, 1, 27-48.
• Uslaner, E. (1999), Democracy
and Social Capital, in M. Warren, ed., Democracy and Trust,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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Verba, S., Nie, N., Kim, J.-O. (1978), Participation
and Political Equality, New York, Cambridge University Press.
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Wilson, P.A. (1997), Building
Social Capital: A Learning Agenda for the Twenty-First Century,
Urban Studies, Vol. 34, No. 5-6, 745-760.
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