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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.

• Essential readings

• Further readings

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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.

• 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.

• Evans, G., Letki, N. (2002), Endogenizing Social Trust: Democratisation in East-Central Europe, Nuffield College Working Papers in Politics, 2002-WP9.

• 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.

• 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.

• Guiso, L. (2010), A trust-driven financial crisis. Implications for the future of financial markets. EUI Economics Working Papers N. ECO2010/07.

• 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.

• 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.

• Huang, F. (2003), Social Capital, Cooperation, and Human Capital, University of Pensilvanya, Department of Economics, mimeo.

• 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.

• Kilpatrick, S. (2003), The Role of VET in Building Social Capital for Rural Community Development in Australia, Discussion Paper D4/2003, University of Tasmania.

• Knack, S. e Zak, P.J. (2004), Building Trust: Public Policy, Interpersonal Trust and Economic Development, forthcoming in the Supreme Court Economic Review.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Verba, S., Nie, N., Kim, J.-O. (1978), Participation and Political Equality, New York, Cambridge University Press.

• 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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