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سرمايه اجتماعي
وب سايتهاي مهم
Essential web sites
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.
• 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.
• 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 It includes hundreds of abstracts, a collection of unpublished papers and many other resources
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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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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
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
• 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
A non-profit organization editing the Comparative Survey of Freedom, which is used as a tool to measure social capital in many empirical studies
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
• 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.
• 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
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.
• 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.
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
• Project on Honesty and Trust
This research project, developed by the Collegium Budapest, aims to study the role of trust in transition economies
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
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
• 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
• Social Capital Internet Guide
A guide to social capital resources in the web, edited by the University of Sidney's Library
The web site of a research group on social capital at the King's College of London
• 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.
• 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
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.
• 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
• The OECD website on Human and Social Capital
The OECD's website section's devoted to human and social capital
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.
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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