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Trust and institutions in post-communist countries

This section collects readings on social cohesion, the diffusion of social norms of trust and reciprocity, and social networks in post-communist countries in transition to a market economy. Particular attention is given to eastern countries entering in the European Union.

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Essential Readings

• Badescu, G., Uslaner, E. (2003), Social Capital and Democratic Transition, London and New York, Routledge.

• Kornai, J., Rose-Ackerman, S., Rothstein, B. (eds) (2004), Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition (Political Evolution and Institutional Change), New York, Palgrave MacMillan.

• Gibson, J. (2001), Social Networks, Civil Society, and the Prospects for Consolidating Russia’s Democratic Transition, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 45, No.1, pp. 51-68.

• Hayoz, N., Sergeyev, V. (2003), Social networks in Russian politics, in Social Capital and the Transition to Democracy, Badescu, G. Uslaner, E. London: Routledge, 46-60.

• Marsh, C. (2000), Making Russian Democracy Work: Social Capital, Economic Development and Democratization, Lewiston, N.Y., Edwin Mellen Press.

• Mihaylowa, D. (2004), Social Capital Research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. An Annotated Bibliography, Central European University, Center for Policy Studies Working Papers Series.

• Raiser, M., Haerpfer, C., Nowotny, T. e Wallace, C. (2001), Social Capital in Transition: A First Look at the Evidence, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, working paper n. 62.

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Further Readings

• Busse, S. (2001), Post-Soviet Social Capital: Evidence from Ethnography, Paper Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
August 2001, Anaheim, CA.

• Busse, S. (2002), Social Capital and Social Change in Novosibirsk, Chapter Six of the Dissertation "Post-Soviet Social Capital and Russia’s Market Transition”, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.

• Cooke, K.S., Rice, E.R.W., Gerbasi, A. (2002), Commitment and Exchange: The Emergence of Trust Networks under Uncertainty, Stanford University, mimeo.

• Evans, G., Letki, N. (2003), Social Trust and Responses to Political and Economic Transformation in East-Central Europe, Nuffield College Working Papers in Politics, 2002-WP9.

• Ferlander, S. (2004), Social Capital in Russia: The role of various types of social connections for health, forthcoming in Mäkinen, I, Carlson, P. (eds.), Health in Russian Regions, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell International.

• Fidrmuc, J., Gërxhani, C. (2004), Formation of Social Capital in Eastern Europe: Explaining the Gap vis-à-vis Developed Countries, University of Bonn, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labor Studies, mimeo.

• Frey, B. (2003), Direct Democracy for Transition Countries, Journal for Institutional Innovation, Development and Transition, Vol. 7, 2003.

• Fritz, V. (2005), State Weakness in Eastern Europe: Concept and Causes, EUI Working Papers, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

• Lelkes, O. (2002), Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economic
transition, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, CASE Paper No. 59.

• Letki, N. (2003), Explaining Political Participation in East-Central Europe: Social Capital, Democracy and the Communist Past, Studies in Public Policy Number 381, University of Strathclyde 2003.

• Lonkila, M. (1999), Social Networks in Post-Soviet Russia. Continuity and Change in the Everyday Life of St. Petersburg Teachers, Helsingin yliopiston verkkojulkaisut, mimeo.

• Marsh, C. (2000), Social Capital and Democracy in Russia, Communist and Post-Communist Studies 33, 2 (Summer 2000): 183-199.

• Morjé Howard, M. (2000), Free Not to Participate: the Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe, Center for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde.

• Nowotny, T. (1996), The Transition from Communism and the Spectre of Latin-Americanisation, East European Quarterly, autumn 1994, 69-91.

• Petro, N. (2001), Creating Social Capital in Russia: The Novgorod Model, World Development 29(2), 229-244.

• Ptácek, P. (2000), Institutions, Networking and Local Culture: Local Community Transformation After 1989 on the Example of Olomouc, Czech Republic, Geographica, No. 36/2000.

• Rose, R. (1999), Getting Things Done in an Anty-Modern Society: Social Capital Networks in Russia, in Dasgupta, P., Serageldin, I. (eds), Social Capital, A Multifaceted Perspective, Washington D.C., The World Bank.

• Rose, R. (1999), What Does Social Capital Add to Individual Welfare? An Empirical Analysis in Russia, SCI Working Paper No. 15, The World Bank

• Zank, W., Xing, L. (2003), Has the Chinese Way Been an Alternative for Eastern Europe? Controversies and Paradoxes, European Studies, Series of Occasional Papers, no. 36/2003, European Research Unit, Aalborg University.

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