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Social capital and economic transition
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.
• Essential readings
• Further readings
• Back to reading list
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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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