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Social capital and economic transition in post-communist countries

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This section collects readings on the role of social capital in the economic transition in post-communist countries. Considered studies are closely related to those presented in the section devoted to Trust and institutions in post-communist countries.

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Essential Readings

Batjargal, B. (2000) Social capital and entrepreneurial performance in Russia: a panel study, No 352 in William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series.

• Graber, G., Stark, D. (1997), Organizing Diversity: Evolutionary Theory, Network Analysis and Postsocialism, Regional Studies, Vol. 31, No. 5, 533-544.

• 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.

• Paldam, M., Svendsen, G.T. (2000), Missing Social Capital And The Transition in Eastern Europe, Journal for Institutional Innovation, Development and Transition.

• Raiser, M. (1997), Informal Institutions, Social Capital and Economic Transition: Reflections on a Neglected Dimension, EBRD Working Paper n. 25.

• 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

• Burawoy, M. (1996), The State and Economic Involution: Russia Through a China Lens, World Development, 24(6), 1105-117.

• Cernat, L. (2001), Institutions and Economic Growth: What Model of Capitalism for Central and Eastern Europe?, paper prepared for the Conference on Institutions in Transition, Slovenia, July 2001.

• Dornish, D. (1999), The Social Embeddedness of Polish Regional Development: Representative Institutions, Path Dependencies, and Network Formation, Paper written as part of Regional Economic Performance, Governance and Cohesion in an Enlarged Europe project sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council’s "One Europe or Several" programme.

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.

Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. (2005), Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange, Northwestern University, Department of Economics, mimeo.

• Hazledine, T. (2002), Agency Theory meets Social Capital: The Failure of the 1984-91 New Zealand Economic Revolution, Paper presented at seminars at the University of Auckland, the 29th Australian Conference of Economists, Sydney.

• Höhmann, H.H., Welter, F. (2004), Entrepreneurial Strategies and Trust Structure and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Behavioural Patterns in “Low Trust” and “High Trust” Environments of East and West Europe, Research Centre for East European Studies, Bremen, Working Paper No. 54.

• Johnson, S., McMillan, J., Woodruff, C. (1999), Contract Enforcement in Transition, EBRD Working Paper n. 45.

• Marsh, C. (2002), Social Capital, Civic Community, and Post-Communist Market Transition in Russia, Paper presented at the at the 2002 Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 21-24, Pittsburgh, PA.

McDermott, G.A. (2003), The Political Foundations of Inter-Firm Networks and Social Capital: A Post-Communist Lesson, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Reginald H. Jones Center Working Paper No. 2003-05.

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

Part, E. (2003), Interrelationships between human capital and social capital: implications for economic development in transition economies, No 24 in University of Tartu - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper Series.

Radosevic, S. (2000), Regional Innovation Systems in Central and Eastern Europe: Determinants, Organizers and Alignments, University College London
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, mimeo.

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

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.

Slangen, L.H.G., Suchanek, P., van Kooten, G.C. (2003), Trust in Countries in Transition: Empirical Evidence from Agriculture, International Journal of Social Economics, 2003, 30(9-10), pp. 1095-1109.

Tomer, J.F. (2002), Intangible Factors in the Eastern European Economic Transition: A Socio-Economic Analysis, Post-Communist Economies, 14(4), December 2002.

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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Reading List's sections

Basic concepts
What is social capital
Against social capital
Measuring social capital

Generating social capital
Civil society and SC
Social capital and the state
The challenges of multiculturalism

Social capital and
the economy

Social capital at the
firm level

The social capital
of industrial districts
Social capital and entrepreneurship
Game theory and
social capital
Social capital and
the labour market

Social capital and
human capital

Social capital,
knowledge and innovation


Social capital
and well-being

Social capital, social interactions and happiness
Social capital and health
• Social capital and education
SC, public services
and the welfare state

Social capital, crime
and urban welfare
Social capital and
the environment
Empirical studies on social capital and well-being

Social capital and development
in advanced economies

Social capital and
economic growth

Social capital and
local development

Social capital and
rural development
Social capital and poverty
Empirical studies on SC and economic growth in HDCs and LDCs

Social capital and development
in low income countries

Social capital and
poor's life conditions

Social capital and
rural development

Microcredit and SC
Development assistance
and social capital

SC and common
pool resources
Other studies on social capital and poverty

Social capital and institutions
Social capital and political participation
Social capital and political institutions' performance

Social capital and transition
Social capital and institutional transition
Social capital and
economic transition


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