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Is fiscal decentralization harmful for economic growth? Evidence from the OECD countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between decentralization and economic growth in 21 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries during the period between 1990 and 2005 and controlling not only for fiscal decentralization, but also for political and administrative decentralization.
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Trust and cooperation: Social capital and community resource management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the average amount sent in a trust game as a measure of social capital in five rural villages in India and analyze how the amount sent is correlated with socio-cultural community characteristics.
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De-lurking in virtual communities: a social communication network approach to measuring the effects of social and cultural capital
TL;DR: A novel way of measuring social and cultural capital, situational antecedents of lurking and de-lurking is proposed and some directions towards measuring active participation in virtual communities are provided.
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Belief Systems and Social Capital as Drivers of Policy Network Structure: The Case of California Regional Planning
TL;DR: This article used exponential random graph models to investigate the roles of policy-relevant beliefs and social capital as drivers of network structure and found that coalitions of actors with similar belief systems are knit together by policy brokers seeking to build transitive social relationships.
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Social capital as a product of class mobilization and state intervention: Industrial workers in Kerala, India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that state intervention and class mobilization in the state of Kerala, India, have produced two forms of social capital, i.e., a programmatic labor movement and a democratic state, and explore the dynamics of both the organized factory sector and the unorganized (informal) sector.