Foundations of Social Capital

Edited by the late Elinor Ostrom, formerly Senior Research Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, US and 2009 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for research on economic governance and T.K. Ahn, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

'Ostrom and Ahn do us the great service of bringing together a varied, rich array of central works on social capital, many of which have been relatively inaccessible. The idea of social capital is still very much a work in progress, as these contributions from a broad array of disciplines demonstrate. Having this collection available will help focus further development of that idea.'

• Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction Elinor Ostrom and T.K. AhnPART IFORERUNNERS 1. Alexis de Tocqueville ([1840] 1945), ‘Of the Use Which the Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Life’, ‘Of the Relation between Public Associations and the Newspapers’, ‘Relation of Civil to Political Associations’, and ‘How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood’2. Lyda Judson Hanifan (1920), ‘Social Capital – Its Development and Use’3. Theodore W. Schultz (1961), ‘Investment in Human Capital’4. Jane Jacobs (1961), ‘The Uses of City Neighborhoods’PART IICONTEMPORARY CONCEPTUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS5. Mark S. Granovetter (1973), ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’6. Mark Granovetter (1985), ‘Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness’7. James S. Coleman (1987), ‘Norms as Social Capital’8. James S. Coleman (1988), ‘Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital’9. Vincent Ostrom (1980), ‘Artisanship and Artifact’PART IIIFORMS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL 10. Ronald S. Burt (1992), excerpt from ‘The Social Structure of Competition’11. Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti (1993), ‘Social Capital and Institutional Success’12. Elinor Ostrom (1992), ‘Institutions as Rules-in-Use’13. Diego Gambetta (2000), ‘Can We Trust Trust?’14. Francis Fukuyama (2000), Social Capital and Civil Society15. Partha Dasgupta (2002), ‘Social Capital and Economic Performance: Analytics’ [Revised and abridged version of: Partha Dasgupta (2000), ‘Economic Progress and the Idea of Social Capital’PART IVSOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEVELOPMENT 16. Michael Woolcock (1998), ‘Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and Policy Framework’17. Francis Fukuyama (1995), ‘Social Capital and the Global Economy’18. Michael Woolcock and Deepa Narayan (2000), ‘Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy’19. Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning (1999), ‘Explaining African Economic Performance’20. Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer (1997), ‘Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation’PART VSOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEMOCRACY 21. Robert D. Putnam (1993), ‘The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life’22. Robert D. Putnam (1995), ‘Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America’23. John Brehm and Wendy Rahn (1997), ‘Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital’Name Index