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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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