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Francis Fukuyama. The Institute of Public Policy. George Mason University. October 1, 1999. Prepared for delivery at the IMF Conference on Second Generation Reforms. Contents. What is Social Capital? What Functions Does Social Capital Play in a Free-Market Liberal Democracy? How Do We Measure Social Capital? Where Does Social Capital Come From?
- Proposition 11
- Learning in Schools
- Participation in Networks
- Enforcement of Norms
- Development of Societal Aspirations
- Efforts For Social Inclusion
Investment in social capital can occur through mechanisms that include: learning in schools; participation in networks; enforcement of norms; development of societal aspirations and efforts for social inclusion.
Fukuyama (1999, p. 257) observes that “one of the most important sources of social capital in contemporary societies is the educational system”. At school, young people learn how to collaborate with others outside their immediate family circle, including through participation in well-structured programmes of physical education (Bailey et al. 2013)....
A key idea in Coleman’s (1986) original essay is that social capital grows when persons participate in social networks, but this does not occur to the extent needed to maximise aggregate wellbeing because a large share of the benefits accrues to people other than the decision-maker. This is because the personal benefits of greater social capital ar...
The social capital definition of Bowles and Gintis (2002) cited above includes willingness to punish violations of community norms (see also Paldam and Svendsen 2000, section 4, and Dasgupta 2005, pp. S6–S7). To illustrate, suppose a person travelling on a bus is subjected to sustained verbal abuse; can the person rely on other passengers to interv...
There is a substantial literature on tensions between individual freedoms and societal aspirations. Margaret Thatcher famously claimed while UK Prime Minister that “there is no such thing as society”; instead “there is living tapestry of men and women and people” (Thatcher 1987, pp. 30–31). That attitude reflects what Francis Fukuyama (1999, pp. 5–...
In his UK study, Peter Hall reported that access to social capital is unevenly distributed among the British population, to the extent that “the more accurate image is of a nation divided between a well-connected and highly-active group of citizens with generally prosperous lives and another set of citizens whose associational life and involvement ...
- Paul Dalziel, Caroline Saunders, Joe Saunders
- 2018
1. Mai 2000 · Social Capital and Civil Society. May 2000. IMF Working Paper 00 (74) DOI: 10.5089/9781451849585.001. Source. RePEc. Authors: Francis Fukuyama. Stanford University. Citations (931)...
1. März 2000 · Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes cooperation between individuals. In the economic sphere it reduces transaction costs, and in the political sphere it promotes the kind of associational life that is necessary for the success of limited government and modern democracy.
15. Feb. 2006 · Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes cooperation between individuals. In the economic sphere it reduces transaction costs, and in the political sphere it promotes the kind of associational life that is necessary for the success of limited government and modern democracy.
- Francis Fukuyama
- 2000
Abstract. This article examines the relation between civil society and social capital. It explains that over the last twenty-five years, the concepts of civil society and social capital have experienced a remarkable rise to prominence across many disciplines and sectors.
social capital. It draws mainly from the social theory tradition of de Tocqueville and Mill and argues that trust has its origins in that broad, deep, and dense network of voluntary associations and intermediary organizations that comprise civil society. Trust is a-probably the-main component of social capital, and social
