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Sites on Social Capital
Essential web sites
• Bowling Alone
The website on Robert Putnam's best seller, Bowling Alone, Collapse
and Revival of American Community. It gives access to the data sets
used in the research reported in the book.
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Community Driven Development and Social Capital
The web site of the World Bank's Social Capital
Thematic Group which brings together roughly 250 World Bank professionals
from various sectors, networks and families interested in how to
apply social capital to World Bank operations
• Observatory PASCAL.
Place Management, Social Capital and Learnin Regions
An initiative of the RMIT University. It reports news and events
on social capital, and gathers different kinds of resources, like
articles and working papers, new books' annoucements and scholars'
opinions.
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Social Capital for Development
The social capital website edited by the World
Bank in collaboration with the Michigan State University. It includes
hundreds of abstracts, a collection of unpublished papers and many
other resources
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The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America
The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America
is an ongoing initiative of Professor Robert D. Putnam at the John
F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The project
focuses on expanding what we know about our levels of trust and
community engagement and on developing strategies and efforts to
increase this engagement.
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Other Web Sites
• Assist Social Capital
Assist Social Capital is a social enterprise located in Scotland,
which Provide opportunies to share knowledge and experience of social
capital development, explore the relevance of the research carried
out over the last few years and find ways of linking it to practical
implementation
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Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Social Capital web site
The ABS is interested in developing national and state measures
of social capital for future inclusion in our survey program. The
purpose of this theme page is to provide an up to date reference
to the progress of the ABS social capital project.
• Australian Institute of
Family Studies
An Australian government research and information
agency established to promote the identification and understanding
of factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia.
Its research themes include the role of social capital in the labour
market and measuring social capital
• Center for Civil Society
Studies
The Center for Civil Society Studies of the Johns Hopkins Institute
for Policy Studies seeks to encourage the development and effective
operation of nonprofit, philanthropic, or civil society organizations.
The Center carries out its work through a combination of research,
training, and information-sharing both in the United States and
throughout the world
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Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS)
The IRIS Center is an internationally-recognized
source of research and advisory expertise for addressing economic
growth and governance issues in transition and developing countries.
The web site includes a collection of working papers by the World
Bank's Social Capital Initiative
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Center for the study of Public Policy, Social Capital Home Page
A research group on social capital at the
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Its research activity focuses
on the contribution that social capital networks can make to producing
welfare in various forms, e.g. health, income security, protection
from crime.
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Citizen Governance: Quality and Trust in Government
The web site of a research project carried out by the Public Management
Institute at the Catholic University of Leuven. The project aims
to establish the conditions for and nature of a relation between
the quality of public services, user satisfaction and citizens'
trust in government.
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CONNEX, Connecting Excellence on European Governance
The Network of Excellence CONNEX ("Connecting Excellence on
European Governance") is a project funded by the European Union
within the first call for proposals for priority 7 of the Sixth
Framework Programme of Research. It is dedicated to the analysis
of efficient and democratic multilevel governance in Europe and
will have a 4 years duration (July 2004 - June 2008).
• Development Trusts Associations
(DTA)
DTA promotes the work of community enterprises in the United Kingdom.
Its aims are to strenghten civil society and improve social welfare.
It conducts research, publish a quarterly information bulletin,
and a range of other publications.
• East Asia Baromoter.
A comparative survey of democratization and value changes
A comparative survey of attitudes and values toward politics, power,
reform, democracy and citizens' political actions in East Asia.
Its data can be used for social capital endowments assessments.
• Economic
and Social Cohesion Laboratory
The Economic and Social Cohesion Laboratory (ESOC-Lab) is a research
unit within London School of Economics' European Institute. The
traditional areas that characterise ESOC-Lab research initiatives
include social capital, institution building, socio-economic development,
ex-ante evaluation of the socio-economic impact of large investment
projects, econometric modelling and data bank construction, the
evaluation of EU technical training and labour market policies,
and the future of regional policy and enlargement in the European
Union.
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Eurobarometer
The website for the Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European
Commission contains the Eurobarometer study, a tool which can be
used to measure social capital at the national level in EU members
countries
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Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group
A multi-disciplinary group of internationally
renowned academics at London South Bank University.
Its research activity focuses on the inter-relationship between
the dynamics of family change and processes of social capital
• Freedom
House
A non-profit organization editing the Comparative
Survey of Freedom, which is used as a tool to measure social capital
in many empirical studies
• Global Baromoter
Surveys
Comparative surveys of attitudes and values toward politics, democracy
and citizens' political actions in Africa, East Asia, the new post-communist
Europe, and in Latin America. Questions cover social, economic and
political conditions. Since 1991 more than 250 surveys have been
undertaken in 55 countries. These data can be used for social capital
endowments assessments.
•
Institute for Social Capital. Strengthening civil society and promoting
social capital in Ukraine.
The Institute for Social Capital (ISC) is a non-governmental, non-profit
organization, founded by Serhiy KOSTYUK in April 2005. Its mission
is to strengthen civil society and promote social capital in Ukraine
by disseminating end advocating principles of mutual trust, expectation
of cooperation, civic activity, and volunteerism. The institute
is legally registered as a Ukrainian non-profit organization with
its own Statute, office, stamp, letterhead and bank account.
• Inter-American
Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics and Development The Inter-American
Initiative of Social Capital, Ethics and Development, promoted by
the Inter-American Development Bank with support from the Norwegian
Government, is intended to strengthen ethical values and social
capital in the countries of the region.
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Inter-American Initiative on Social Capital's Digital Library
A collection of abstracts and working papers edited by the Inter-American
Initiative on Social Capital, promoted by the Inter-American Development
Bank, with support from the Norwegian Government.
• La Economia Solidaria
A web site edited by the Chilean economist Luis Razeto. It collects
up-to-data news and events, bibliographical references, comments
on current affairs in politics and economics, a forum and many other
interesting columns.
• Learning by Connecting
A web site edited by Tjip de Jong, Phd student at the University of Twente. His research focusses on the relation between social capital and knowledge productivity. Learning by Connecting provides an overview of theory, concepts and usebility of social capital, social networks and knowledge productivity.
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Multiplayers Experiments on Fairness and Reciprocity
Collected by Econport, the Digital Library on Microeconomics. It
includes the Trust game and the Dictator game, often used to measure
trust and social capital.
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National Election Studies
The web site of the National Election Studies (NES) at the University
of Michigan. NES conducts national surveys of the American electorate
in presidential and midterm election years and carries out research
and development work through pilot studies in odd-numbered years.
•
OECD's Human and Social Capital Publications & Documents, Reports
OECD working papers on human ans social capital
•
Participation and civic engagement in poverty reduction strategies
A web site edited by the World Bank. It focuses on the role of social
capital in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
• Policy
Making, Reporting and Measuring, Intangibles, Skills Development,
Management (PRISM)
PRISM is a multi-disciplinary European initiative aimed at gaining
a deeper understanding of the issues surrounding the management
and measurement of intangibles in the modern economy
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Project on Honesty and Trust
This research project, developed by the Collegium
Budapest, aims to study the role of trust in transition economies
• Renewal.net
A website developed by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, which is
part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Its aim is to provide an independent, evidence based view of what
works and what doesn't in neighbourhood renewal
• RESTIM
Project
The RESTRIM project is a European Commission
funded project that examines the role of networks in promoting economic
competitiveness and positive change in remote rural areas. project
has study areas in six countries: Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden,
Finland and Italy
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Social Capital Assessment Tool (SOCAT)
Edited by the World Bank. The SOCAT is a multifaceted instrument
designed to collect social capital data at the household, community
and organizational levels. It is an integrated quantitative/qualitative
tool.
•
Social Capital: an Interdisciplinary Perspective
This web site contains material from the EURESCO
conference on "Social Capital", which took place in Exeter
from 15th to 20th September 2001. The web site is
regularly updated with new material, links and information concerning
social capital research. The web site is meant to keep scholars
working in the area of social capital informed about new research
and developments and on the preparation of follow up conferences
•
Social Capital and the Voluntary Sector: a Comparative Analysis
A research project carried out by the Center
for Civil Society of the London School of Economics.
It analyses the role of social capital and the voluntary sector
in the United Kingdom over a 12-month period in a comparative way.
•
Social Capital and Networks of Trust
The scientific challenge of the research programme on Social Capital
and Networks of Trust (SoCa) is to try to explain and understand
how and where social capital is created. The programme is funded
by the Academy of Finland in cooperation with the Ministry of Social
Affairs and Health, the Ministry of Labour, the Finnish Work Environment
Fund and the National Technology Agency Tekes.
• Social
Capital Interest Group
University of Nebraska
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Social Capital Internet Guide
A guide to social capital resources in the web, edited by the University
of Sidney's Library
• Social Capital
Network
The web site of a research group on social capital at the King's
College of London
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Social Capital, Political Participation and Local Development
The website of a research projext funded by Bahia's Research Foundation
(FAPESB, Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado
da Bahia). The project focuses on the cultural and political dimensions
of development, and stresses the local historical and cultural contexts
in the definition of social capital and its consequences upon local
development.
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Social Capital Working Papers
This page provides links to the working papers
produced by the Social Capital Initiative (SCI) and the Local Level
Institutions Study
The Local Level Institutions (LLI) Study is an innovative program
of comparative empirical research across three countries: Bolivia,
Burkina Faso and Indonesia
• SOCQUIT Project
The SOCQUIT (Social Capital, Quality of Life and Information Society
Technologies) Project aims to develop a decision support software
tool that shows the effects of Information Society Technologies
(IST) on the development of social capital and quality of life.
• T3 Group
- Trust, Theory and Technology
The T3 Group is a research team focused on the trust concept and
its relations with technological environment. It is hosted in the
Institute
of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at the
National Reasearch
Council (CNR), in Rome, Italy.
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The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey
The survey maps the relative strengths and
areas for improvement in their communities' civic behavior and sets
a baseline against which future progress can be assessed in another
survey several years hence
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The OECD website on Human and Social Capital
The OECD's website section's devoted to human and social capital
• Transparency International
Transparency International (TI) is a non governmental organization
that builds national, regional and global coalitions, embracing
the state, civil society and the private sector, in order to fight
domestic and international corruption. TI elaborates the Corruption
Index, sometimes used as a proxy for social capital at a macro level
•
Unpublished Papers on Social Capital
A collection of unpublished papers on social
capital submitted to the World Bank by researchers, practitioners,
and activists. Its aim is to promote research and discussion on
topics related to social capital and development
•
UK National Statistics Social Capital Project
An UK National Statistics project, which aims
to develop and promote a more consistent approach to the measurement
of social capital and to produce analytical articles on social capital.
• Water and Sanitation Program
(WSP)
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) began in 1979 as a cooperative
effort between The World Bank and the United Nations Development
Program to look at cost-effective technologies and models for providing
safe water and sanitation to the world's poor. Today, the Water
and Sanitation Program, as it is now known, focuses much effort
on capacity building. For this reason, many projects explicitly
take into account the problem of social capital's formation.
• Western Cape Social Capital Network
This web space will serves as a hub for people who work within the social capital environment, mainly focusing on the needs of the citizens of the Western Cape. This is a space to collaborate, share ideas and achieve the goals set out in the various policies, as shown in practical projects.
• World Values
Survey
The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of sociocultural
and political change. It is conducted by a network of social scientist
at leading universities all around world. The survey is performed
on nationally representative samples in almost 80 societies on all
six inhabited continents
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