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About this site

Site's goals, JEE Reward, Links and Statistics, Acknowledgements

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Site's goals

Social Capital Gateway (formerly known as Capitale Sociale.it) is a personal, non profit, initiative. It is not funded neither by academic nor by private for profit institutions. My primary goals are:

• Providing useful resources for researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners interested in the study of social capital and other related topics, like poverty and development.
• Promoting discussion and ideas exchange on these 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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JEE Reward

The Journal of Economic Education (JEE) has acknowledged Social Capital Gateway as an exemplary material for teaching and learning economics. The JEE is published by Heldref Publications in cooperation with the National Council on Economic Education and the Advisory Committee on Economic Education of the American Economic Association.

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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 and by the web statistics service of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".

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 • Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bibliothèque électronique économique • University of Auckland, LEARN (Library Electronic Academic Resouces Network) • 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^ Academic Departments and Research Centers • Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics • 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 • 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 • 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 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 Stirling, ODELUCE Project • University of Stirling, Observatory Pascal • University of Sussex, Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought • 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^ 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 of Medical Anthropology • US Mid-South Sociological Association ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^ International Organizations • World Bank, Social Development Department • World Bank, Social Capital Library ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^ Public Research Institutes • Government of Queensland, Australia • Information Center for Entreprenurship, Sweden, Library • 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^ NGOs • 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 • East Coast Community Development Trust, New Zealand • Eticanet, Associazione culturale • Participatory Development Forum, Canada • Social Capital Inc. Woburn, Boston, MA • Thusanang, The Southern African Funding Information Facility • Toronto CED Learning Network ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^ Firms • CJR Education Service Center, Hong Kong • Eurescom, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^ 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), Tarkan Cavusoglu (Middle-East University of Ankara), Xiangming Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago), 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), 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). ------------------------------------------------------------------^^^

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, Liliana Cardile, 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, Blaž 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, Isabella Samà, 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, Liliana Cardile, 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, Blaž 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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