In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social
capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading …

Current democratic theory and recent international policy initiatives reveal an intense
interest in the relationship between social capital and democracy. This interest is the most …

A within-scale meta-analysis was performed on 310 samples of children (ages 8–16; N=
61,424) responding to the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). Girls' depression scores …

This article addresses the concept of social capital: in particu-lar, where social capital stands
today, how it interacts with other factors in international development, and how it will …

This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical
economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process …

Four experiments tested the idea that social exclusion leads to (unintentionally) self-
defeating behavior. Exclusion was manipulated by telling some people that they were likely …

This paper critically examines the way in which empirical evidence is developed in support
of a role for social capital in socioeconomic outcomes. Three leading studies of social capital …

Social capital has entered development policy thinking and practice in Latin America where
it converges with the premises of a new development agenda that emerged in the 1990s …

Part I describes the rise of business ethics in practice. General misconceptions about the
field are discussed and a summary of common ethical theories is presented. It concludes …

This paper suggests first, that in the recent literature on welfare states, while family change
has received considerable attention, the issue of gender equality has not. Second, it …