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Social Capital Gateway (SCG) is a web site publishing materials for the study of social capital and related topics in a multidisciplinary perspective. It is mainly targeted to: 1. scholars who want to keep themselves posted on the frontier of the scientific debate in the field. 2. Researchers needing references and hints for their work. 3. Graduate and undergraduate students who are dealing with social capital to the purposes of writing their dissertation.
SCG is a personal, non profit, initiative. It is not funded neither
by academic nor by private for profit institutions.
The web site provides constantly updated information on calls for papers, upcoming conferences, new publications and research projects, academic job vacancies, and postgraduate programs. A special section is devoted to new PhDs interested in sharing their dissertation on social capital and related topics. The site’s reading list, collecting selected papers from different disciplines partitioned into more than 30 thematic sections, is a particularly valuable tool for researchers and students approaching the topic for the first time.
Within the maintenance of the web site, two weekly newsletters are delivered: 1. An update on upcoming conferences, calls for papers and other news and events. 1. A report, called NEP-Soc (New Economics Papers on Social Norms & Social Capital), containing information (i.e., title, authors, abstract and link to the full text) on new papers in economics. The report is sponsored by the State University of New York within the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) project.
Thanks to the interaction stimulated through the newsletters, the Social Capital Gateway has favoured the aggregation of a constantly growing community of researchers, teachers, and practitioners, who cooperate with the initiative by sharing their papers and information.
From May 2010, the opportunities of networking and interaction have been enhanced through the establishment of a Facebook page, where readers are able to post links and articles on the wall, as well as start discussions and call for collaborations on their research topics.
This web site was born as a by-product of my personal research activity,
and of course it cannot be exhaustive. Thus I invite all visitors
to keep me informed on their work and to submit any kind of research material for publication
on this site. Scholars involved in the organisation of conferences
and other initiatives related to social capital are invited to let
me know about these activities. I hope to contribute in giving
them further publicity through this site.
Fabio Sabatini
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Numbers
Social Capital Gateway was created in 2003. Since then, it received more than 7 millions visitors, as certified by three online statistics private services (“WebTools” from 2003 to 2006, “Aruba Statistics” from 2006 to 2008 and “Google Analytics” from 2008 to date). Currently, the daily number of visitors ranges from 2,000 to 3,000, mostly from Europe, United States, Australia, China, and India.
The web site is linked as a useful resource for social sciences by hundreds of research institutions, like international organizations (e.g. the World Bank), academic departments at the most prestigious universities (e.g. Harvard, Chicago, and LSE), scholarly associations (e.g. the American Economic Association), NGOs, and individual researchers’ blogs and web sites.
Still, most of the traffic comes from search engines, specially Google.
Thanks to such a huge number of links from highly-ranked web sites, Social Capital Gateway has in fact a very high “googlerank”.
The weekly newsletter has about 5,000 subscribers, mostly researchers, practitioners, teachers, and students from all over the world.
The NEP-Soc report has about 2,400 subscribers, mostly scholars.
Subscribers often contribute to Social Capital Gateway by sharing their research work and other information like calls for papers, conference announcements and the forth.
Such a precious source of interaction and debate has been recently enriched by the establishment, at the beginning of May 2010, of a Facebook page. After two weeks of activity, the page has now about 480 fans.
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Statistics and Links
The web site has an average of 70.000 visitors
per month, as registered by the private web statistics service WebTool.it.
Social Capital Gateway is linked as
an useful resource for social sciences by hundreds of research institutions
all over the world, among which the World Bank,
Harvard University, Princeton University, and the London School
of Economics.
Here is a selection of research institutions which placed a link to Social Capital Gateway within their web site:
International Organizations , Academic Libraries, Academic
Departments and Research Centers, Academic Societies, Academic Resources Collections, Public
Research Institutes, NGOs, Firms.
Academic
Libraries
Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, Library
American University of Washington, Library
Baylor University, Waco, Texas, Library
Columbia State University, New York, Lehman Social Sciences
Library
Harvard University, Harvard, MA, Kennedy School of Government,
Library
Manchester Metropolitan University, Library, Researchers'
weekly bullettin
Princeton University, Pliny Fisk Library of Economics
Simon Fraser University Library, Information resources for economics
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bibliothèque
électronique économique
University of Auckland, LEARN (Library Electronic Academic
Resouces Network)
University of Manchester, John Rylands University Library
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Library
University of Sidney, Library, Section Social Capital
University of Wellington, Victoria Library
University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Library
Vanguard University of Southern California, Cope Budge Library
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Academic Departments and Research
Centers
Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics
Angelo State University, Texas, Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work
Central European University, Budapest, Center for Policy Studies
Concordia
University, New Rural Economy Project
Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences
Freie Universitat Berlin, Institut für Soziologie
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, Department of Economics
Harvard University, Harvard, MA, Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs
Harvard University, Harvard, MA, Saguaro Seminar
Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran, Department of Economics
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Development Economics Research
Group
London School of Economics, Centre for Civil Society
London South Bank University, Families & Social Capital
Research Group
Park
University, International Center for Civic Engagement
Pennsylvania State University, Social Science Research Institute
Queensland University of Technology, Institute for Sustainable Resources
RMIT University,
Observatory PASCAL
Skidmore College, Department of Sociology
Tilburg University, Department of Economics
Trinity University, Texas, Department of of Sociology and
Anthropology
Trinity College,
Dublin, Centre for Nonprofit Management
Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Marco Biagi
Università
di Palermo, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali
Università di Roma La Sapienza, Corso di Laurea in
Economia della Cooperazione Internazionale e dello Sviluppo
Università di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Sociologia
e Comunicazione
Università di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Studi
Geoconomici, Statistici, Storici per l'analisi regionale
Università di Urbino, LaPolis, Laboratorio di Studi
Politici e Sociali
Universities of Essex and Manchester, Economic and Social
Data Service (ESDS)
University of Aberdeen Business School
University of Adelaide, School of Economics
University of Calgary, Department of Economics
University of Canterbury, School of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Essex, Department of Economics
University of Essex and Manchester, Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
University of Glasgow, Centre for Research & Development
in Adult and Lifelong Learning
University of Groningen, Groningen Growth and Development
Centre
University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Social Capital
and Networks of Trust Project
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS)
University of Louisville, Department of Sociology
University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy
and Management
University of Missouri, St Louis, Department of Sociology
University of Nebraska, Social Capital Interest Group
University of Oxford, Department of Sociology
University of Pensylvania, Philadelphia, Department of Sociology
University of Pensylvania, School of Social Work
University of Queensland, School of Economics
University of Sheffield, Political Economy Research Centre
University of South Florida, USF Collaborative for Children, Families & Communities
University of Stirling, ODELUCE Project
University
of Stirling, Observatory Pascal
University of Sussex, Graduate Programme in Social and Political
Thought
University of Tasmania, Department of Economic Development, Tasmanian Social Capital Network
University of Zaragoza, Group of Social and Economic Studies
of the Third Sector
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Blaise Pascal Instituut
Western Connecticut State University, Department of Social
Sciences
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Scholarly Societies
American Economic Association, Resources for Economists
Agricultural Economics Society, United Kingdom
Australian Sociological Association
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Development Studies
British Academy, The British Academy Portal
Canadian Social Research Network
International Development Economics Associates (Network IDEAS)
International Network for Social Network Analysis
Regional Studies Association
Society for Conservation Biology
Society of Medical Anthropology
US Mid-South Sociological Association
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Academic Collections of Resources
Erasmus University Rotterdam, World Database of Happiness
Hitotsubashi University of Tokyo, WebEc, World Wide Web Resources
in Economics
Inomics, EconDirectory
Social Research.com, Research Resources for the Social Sciences
Social Science Information Gateway
The
SocioLog, Julian Dirkie's Guide to Sociology On-Line
University of Amsterdam, Sociosite
University
of Bristol, Institute for Learning and Research Technology,
"Biz/Ed", Business and Economics Resources for
students, teachers and lecturers
University of California, Infomine, Scholarly Internet Resources
Collections
University
of Helsinki, WebEc, World Wide Web Resources in Economics
University of Manchester, Manchester Computing, WebEc, World
Wide Web Resources in Economics
University of Missouri, St Louis, Internet Resources for Sociologists
Washington
University in St. Louis, WebEc, World Wide Web Resources in
Economics
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International Organizations
World Bank, Social Development Department
World Bank, Social Capital Library
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Public Research Institutes
Cape Gateway, South Africa
Government of Queensland, Australia
Information Center for Entreprenurship, Sweden, Library
Institute of child Health, Source International Information Support Centre, London, UK
Neighbourhood
Renewal Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, United
Kingdom
Service central de la statistique et des études économiques,
Lussemburgo
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Public Involvement Database
Zentrum fur Soziale Innovation, Wien
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Civil society
Assist Social Capital, Scotland
Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention
for Mental Health (Auseinet), LiFe initiative
Balochistan Development Gateway, Pakistan
Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, Iniciativa Interamericana
de Capital Social, Ética e Desenvolvimento
CESTIM,
Centro Studi Immigrazione
Consorzio Gino Mattarelli (CGM)
Development Resource Centre, New Zealand
Drug Info Clearing House, The Drug Prevention Network, Australia
East Coast Community Development Trust, New Zealand
Learning for Sustainability, New Zealand
Natural Capital Institute, Wiser Heart Initiative, USA
IGNITE, Regional Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communities, UK
Participatory Development Forum, Canada
Philia, A Dialogue on Caring Citizenship, Canada
Social Capital Inc. Woburn, Boston, MA
Social Edge, Skoll Foundation
Thusanang, The Southern African Funding Information Facility
Toronto
CED Learning Network
VONNE, Voluntary Organisations' Network North East, UK
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Firms
CJR Education
Service Center, Hong Kong
Eurescom,
Germany
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Social Scientists
Social Capital Gateway is linked also by the following social scientists' personal
web pages:
Howard
E. Aldrich (University of North Carolina), Thierry
Baudassé (Université d'Orléans), Paul Bullen (Management Alternatives Ltd) Tarkan
Cavusoglu (Middle-East University of Ankara), Xiangming
Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago), Tjip de Jong (University of Twente), Dejalma Cremonese (Universidade Regional de Noroeste
do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul), Ken Daniszewsi (University
of California Los Angeles), Giovanni
Di Bartolomeo (University of Rome La Sapienza and
University of Teramo), Giuseppe
Garofalo (University of Rome La Sapienza), Arent
Greve (Norvegian School of Economics and Business
Administration), Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern University), Gary
Holden (New York University), Dean
Karlan (Princeton University), Ferry
Koster (University of Amsterdam), Sajal
Lahiri (Southern Illinois University), Andrew
Leigh (Australian National University), Natalia
Letki (University of Oxford), Joseph
D. Lewandowski (Charles University), Bryane
Michael (University of Oxford), Dénis
Péguin (Université de Provence), Anand Ramanathan (Indian Institute of Management), Ronald
E. Rice (University of California Santa Barbara), Shankar
K. Sankaran (T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal), Jonathan
Temple (University of Bristol), Martin
Van Der Gaag (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Douglas
R. White (University of California Irvine).
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Acknowledgements
I wish to thank for their helpful reports and comments on this web
site:
Isidro F. Aguillo, Emmanuel
Asomba, Elisabetta Basile, Martina Battisti, Katrina Beard, Roland
J.M. Bénabou, Albert Benschop, Christian Bjørnskov,
Steve Bloomfield, Elena Boille, Michael Bouwens, Samuel Bowles,
Iva Bozovic, Gerard Breeman, Herrington J. Bryce, Michael Briguglio,
Luigino Bruni, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Vicky Cattell,
Simona Cavallini, Claudio Cecchi, Sergio Cesaratto, Xiangmin Chen,
Asimina Christoforou, Sabatina Ciogli, Hilde Coffé, Karen
Cook, Fabio Corbisiero, David Crowley, Luigi Curini, Ken Daniszewski,
Paul Dekker, Roberta De Santis, Mary De Silva, Joachim De Weerdt,
Giacomo Degli Antoni, Paola Di Nicola, Mario Diani, Asif Dowla,
Rosalind Edwards, Sara Ferlander, Paolo Ferrario, John Field, François
Fontaine, Luca Formaggia, Jonathan Fox, Sandra Franke, Maurizio
Franzini, Jennifer Freeman, Dustin Freemont, Massimo Giannini, Claudio
Gnesutta, Stefano Grando, Arent Greve, Daniele Lamotta Genovese,
Johann Graf Lambsdorf, Tom Healy, Dirk Hoerder, Camilla Holmemo,
Harvey, S. James, Nelson Lara, Romina Laumann, Andrew Leigh, Bla
Lenarcic, Rosemary Leonard, Robert Leonardi, Natalia Letki, Kevin
M. Leyden, Ming-Feng Lin, Nan Lin, Yuwei Lin, Fabio Lucchi, Michael
Lyons, Simona Milio, Joseph D. Lewandowski, Gary D. Lynne, Sonja
Lyubomirsky, Enrico Marchetti, Cecilia Maria Marchisio, Edward Miguel,
Dimitrina Mihaylova, Flavio Milandri, Carlos Milani, Renato Mion,
Anosua Mitra, John F. Mohan, Kirsteen Monteith, Antonio Mutti, Dean
S. Karlan, Robert Kates, Ferry Koster, Serhiy Kostyuk, Valdis Krebs,
Marci Kyle, Plamen V. Nikolov, Ernesto Noronha, Veronica Nyhan-Jones,
Paolo Palazzi, Fouli Papageorgiou, Pablo Paras, Satu Pekkarinen,
Vittorio Pelligra, Sergio Peña-Neira, Nicolai N. Petro, Mario
Pianta, Ugo Pica Ciamarra, Bala Pillai, Sanjeev Prakash, Jules N.
Pretty, Selma Prodanovic, Robert D. Putnam, Wendy Rahn, Martina
Recchiuti, Tommaso Reggiani, Bill Reimer, Bill Richards, Susan Rose-Ackerman,
Bo Rothstein, Bryan Routledge, Ariel Rubinstein,
Andrea Salvini, Thomas Sander, Shankar Sankaran, Francesco Schiavone,
Maurice Schiff, Gilles Seguin, Tony Smith, Lee Snook, Kim Sosin,
Bettina Stark, Dietlind Stolle, Stefano Supino, Eduardo Terrén,
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Simon Szreter, Volker Täube, Jonathan
Temple, Frank Thomas, Luigi Tronca, Robin Upton, Eric Uslaner, Thierry
van Bastelaer, Wim van Oorschot, Martin Van Der Gaag, Paolo Villarecci,
Daniela Visentin, Michele Viviani, Tommaso Vitale, Sarah Wakefield,
Rosann Wise.
For their encouragement to my effort in developing this site, I
wish to thank:
Adrienne Lattery, Aris Accornero, Mohammad Ziaul
Ahsan, Ronald V. Amorado, Angelo Antoci, Mahyar Arefi, Emmanuel
Asomba, Bob Babajanian, Jo Balatti, Filippo Barbera, Andrzej S.
Bartelski, Elisabetta Basile, Cherylinn Bassani, Martina Battisti,
Katrina Beard, Aklima Begum, Nicolò Bellanca, Roland
J.M. Bénabou, Samuel Bentolila, Erik Bergrud, Gianfranco
Bettin, Christian Bjørnskov, Bobray Bordelon, Ron Boschma,
Michael Bouwens, Gerard Breeman, Ferruccio Bresolin, Herrington
J. Bryce, Luigino Bruni, Edgardo Bucciarelli, Almudena Buciega,
Kaethe Burt O ’Dea, Massimo Michele Bufi, Colin Campbell,
Alessandra Cantori, Andrew Cartwright, Vicky Cattell,
Luigi Ceccarini, Claudio Cecchi, Xiangming Chen, Asimina Christoforou,
Miu Chung Yan, Marta Cieslak, Daniela Cimillo, Bruce P. Clayman,
Karen Cook, Fabio Corbisiero, Patty Costantini, Dejalma Cremonese,
Giuseppe Croce, Steve Cropper, Luigi Curini, Nazmi Çyçek,
Debra Davidson, Domenico De Masi, Roberta De Santis, Giacomo Degli
Antoni, Paul Dekker, Mary DeSilva, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Paola
Di Nicola, Brian Dollery, Freda Donoghue, Jim Downing, Uwe Dulleck,
Khalil Abd Elhamed, Becky Elmhirst, Peter Ester, Daniela Federici,
Knud gentschen Felde, Sara Ferlander, John Field, Marco Florean,
François Fontaine, Jonathan Fox, Sandra Franke, Maurizio
Franzini, Jennifer Freeman, Dustin Freemont, Jeff Frieden, Francis
Fukuyama, Loretta Gallo, Mariam Ginman, Claudio Gnesutta, Sara Gorgoni,
Ileana Grandelis, Stefano Grando, Carlos F. Gonzalez, Quentin Grafton,
Chris Grayson, Arent Greve, Benedetto Gui, Henrik Jordahl, Pertti
Jokivuori, June Hazzlewood, Tom Healy, Dirk Hoerder, Andrea Ichino,
Katsushi Imai, Ellen Isenstein, Aasha Kapur Mehta, Dean S. Karlan,
Robert Kates, Yuri Kazepov, Martin Kohli, Jane Kolodinsky, James
D. Konow, Douglas Koritz, Serhiy Kostyuk, Valdis Krebs, Krishna
Kumar, Marci Kyle, Marija Ilic, Nelson Lara, Romina Laumann, Andrew
Leigh, Bla Lenarcic, Rosemary Leonard, Robert Leonardi, Natalia
Letki, Kevin M. Leyden, Joseph D. Lewandowski, Patrizia Lima, Ezra
Limiri Mbogori, Ming-Feng Lin, Nan Lin, Yuwei Lin, Liviu
Livanu, Emilio Luque, Erzo Luttmer, Gary D.
Lynne, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Roderick A. MacLeod, Enrico Marchetti,
Adriana B. Marina, João Martins, Valentina Martino, Francesca
Marzo, John Matsusaka, Rosa McManamey, Simon Maxwell, Dawit Mekonnen,
Alessandro Messina, Matteo Migheli, Stefano Migliorisi, Edward Miguel,
Flavio Milandri, Carlos Milani, Enrico Millotti, Renato Mion, Luca
Mocarelli, John F. Mohan, Giulio Moini, Kirsteen Monteith, Kevin
Morgan, Consuelo Morillo, Antonio Mutti, Plamen V. Nikolov, Ernesto
Noronha, D. Mario Nuti, Olanipekun Oluwasola, Annamaria Orban, Patricia
Ordóñez de Pablos, Mike Osborne, Paolo Palazzi, Giovanni
Palmieri, Pablo Paras, Edward Pajak, Vittorio Pelligra, Sergio Peña-Neira,
Nicolai N. Petro, Satu Pekkarinen, Francesco Pezzulli, Mario Pianta,
Ugo Pica Ciamarra, Aneta Piekut, Arletty Pinel, Anders Poulsen,
Asutosh Pradhan, Sanjeev Prakash, Jules N. Pretty, Selma Prodanovic,
Carlotta Pugi, Louis Putterman, Robert D. Putnam, Wendy Rahn, Michele
Raitano, Raj Raval, Andrea Ravecca, Tommaso Reggiani, Bill Reimer,
Bill Richards, Giuseppe Ricotta, Rafael Rob, Mary A. Robertson,
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bo Rothstein, Bryan
Routledge, Pier Luigi Sacco, Andrea Salvini, Fabrizio San Pietro,
Thomas Sander, Shankar Sankaran, Anna Maria Santo, Steven Sampson,
Francesco Schiavone, Carol Schuetz, Gilles Seguin, Anirban Sengupta,
Victor Sergeev, Gohar Shahnazaryan, Anna Maria Simonazzi, Tony Smith,
Bettina Stark, Bodo Steiner, Stefano Supino, Eduardo
Terrén, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Gunnar Lind H. Svendsen,
Simon Szreter, Volker Täube, Gregorius Teguh, Jon Temple, Luigi
Tronca, Eric Uslaner, Thierry van Bastelaer, Martin van der Gaag,
Rick van der Ploeg, Wim van Oorschot, Jan van Deth, Jiri Vecernik,
Rob Venter, Paolo Villarecci, Michele Viviani, Daniela Visentin,
Franco Volpi, Sarah Wakefield, Drew Walker, Emily White, Rosann
Wise, Kazuo Yamaguchi, Anne Birgitta Yeung, Luca Zarri, Isleide
Zissimos, Jethro Zuwarimwe.
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Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society, São Paulo, Brazil, August 2010.
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First International Conference in Political Economy, in Rethymno, Greece, September 2010.
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