Social Capital: Reviewing the Concept and its Policy Implications

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Acknowledgments, Contents, Abbreviations

Overview
Key Points, Overview

1   Introduction
1.1   The interface between social capital and public policy
1.2   The Commission’s interest in social capital
1.3   About this paper

2   The conceptual literature on social capital
2.1   Definitions and treatments
2.2   Key features: norms, networks and trust
2.3   Sources and determinants
2.4   Positive impacts
2.5   Negative impacts
2.6   Summing-up

3   The empirical evidence on social capital
3.1   Measuring social capital
3.2   Estimating effects
3.3   General limitations of the empirical studies
3.4   Recent research developments
3.5   Summing-up

4   Social capital and policy analysis
4.1   Assessing policies to build or support social capital
4.2   Incorporating social capital considerations into other policy assessments
4.3   Redesigning policies to harness existing social capital
4.4   Summing-up

A   Some policy ideas aimed at enhancing social capital
A.1   Specific policy ideas
A.2   The general role of government

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