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Social Capital, Impartiality and the Welfare State: An Institutional Approach
Bo Rothstein,Dietlind Stolle +1 more
TL;DR: Hooghe as discussed by the authors sheds more light on the sources of one important aspect of social capital, namely generalized trust, and shows that, at the micro-level, voluntary associations do not necessarily work as producers of civic values and attitudes, such as generalized trust.
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Education, Social Cohesion and Economic Growth
TL;DR: For example, this article showed that when different cultural groups separately determine the social content of their school curricula excessive polarization can result, with less than optimal growth, in a political context in which all agents are identified with one group or another.
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Can social capital be intentionally generated? A randomized trial from rural South Africa
Paul Pronyk,Trudy Harpham,Joanna Busza,Godfrey Phetla,Linda Morison,James R Hargreaves,Julia C. Kim,Julia C. Kim,Charlotte Watts,John Porter +9 more
TL;DR: An intervention in rural South Africa that combined group-based microfinance with participatory gender and HIV training in an attempt to catalyze changes in solidarity, reciprocity and social group membership as a means to reduce women's vulnerability to intimate partner violence and HIV is conducted.
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Citizenship and Civic Engagement: Attitudes and Behaviour in Britain:
TL;DR: The authors examined three dimensions of civic activism in modern Britain: individualistic activism, contact activism, and collective activism and examined three alternative theories of participation to account for these dimensions: general incentives; social capital; and civic voluntarism.
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Uncertainty, risk, and trust: Russian and American credit card markets compared
Alya Guseva,Akos Rona-Tas +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the strategies that Russian and American banks use to evaluate the creditworthiness of prospective credit card holders and conclude that when actors face uncertainty and are unable to calculate risk, they rely on trust.