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Three forms of trust and their association
Kenneth Newton,Sonja Zmerli +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the relationships between particular social trust, general social trust and political trust are investigated and a variety of political, social-psychological, and social capital theories of them are tested.
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Group-Based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study indigenous insurance institutions developed to cope with the high costs of funerals, based on evidence from rural areas in Tanzania and Ethiopia, and argue that the characteristics and inclusiveness of these institutions make them well-placed as models to broaden insurance provision and other developmental activities in these communities.
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Tackling Social Exclusion in the European Union? The Limits to the New Orthodoxy of Local Partnership
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine three issues critical to the impact of the new orthodoxy of local partnership: the capacity of partnerships as interorganizational forms of local governance; their inclusiveness; and the extent of outcomes which can be attributed to partnership as a distinctive mode of local government.
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Policy Networks as Collective Action
TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that one way of advancing the policy network approach is to apply collective action theory and explicitly regard different empirical appearances of network concepts as expressions of collective action.
State-society synergy : government and social capital in development
TL;DR: State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development as discussed by the authors ) is a state-society synergy model for developing countries, focusing on the potential positive role of relations that join state and civil society in shared developmental projects.