Contents:
Preface
1. The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen and Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen
PART I: WHY COOPERATION? CLASSICAL EXPLANATIONS
2. The Meaning of Social Capital and its Link to Collective
Action
Elinor Ostrom and T.K. Ahn
3. Cooperation: Evidence from Experiments
Anders Poulsen
4. Grid-Group Analysis
D. Douglas Caulkins
PART II: WHY COOPERATION? RECENT EXPLANATIONS
5. Social Capital in the Brain?
Michael Bang Petersen, Andreas Roepstorff and Søren Serritzlew
6. Humour
Peter Gundelach
7. Religio-philosophical Roots
Ralph Weber
PART III: CORRUPTION AND THE QUALITY OF INSTITUTIONS
8. Corruption
Eric M. Uslaner
9. Social Capital: The Dark Side
Peter Graeff
10. Social Capital in East-Central Europe
Natalia Letki
PART IV: THE WELFARE STATE
11. The State
Francisco Herreros
12. The Universal Welfare State
Bo Rothstein
13. The Nordic Welfare State
Thora Margareta Bertilsson and Christian Hjorth-Andersen
PART V: THE ROLE OF THE STATE
14. Tax Compliance
Lars P. Feld
15. The Environment
Kim Mannemar Sønderskov
16. The Labour Market
Fabio Sabatini
PART VI: MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
17. Locational Choice, Ethnicity and Assimilation
Gil S. Epstein
18. Making Integration Work
Peter Nannestad
PART VII: THE ECONOMY
19. Economic Inequality
Henrik Jordahl
20. Economic Growth
Christian Bjørnskov
21. The Macro Perspective on Generalized Trust
Martin Paldam
PART VIII: MEASUREMENT
22. Mixed Methods Assessment
Veronica Nyhan Jones and Michael Woolcock
23. The Sociability of Nations: International Comparisons in
Bonding, Bridging and Linking Social Capital
Roger Patulny
24. Building Social Capital
Robert Chase and Rikke Nørding Christensen
Index
Edited by Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Professor of Comparative Politics, Aarhus University and Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen, Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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