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community. Based on these definitions, a conceptual framework for analyzing and measuring social capital and its indicators is … of three prototype communities–a small rural community, a modern city suburb, and a community located in the core of a … central city are outlined. For each prototype community, social capital formation strategies and indicators suggesting …
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We analyze conflicts between communities. A community-specific public good, to which members make voluntary … contributions, defines communities. Some, but not all, members of one community may contribute towards another community’s public …’ of communities in this sense provides incentives to individuals to support confiscation of the other community’s wealth …
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We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income … communities. Ideologies of community solidarity may well trump those of class solidarity because of the implicit sharing of … distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from …
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Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is commonly perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditures. We examine the logic of this exemption....
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goods, and has strong implications for class and community solidarity. …We investigate how voluntary contributions to community-specific public goods affect (a) the relationship between …
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We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income … communities. Ideologies of community solidarity may well trump those of class solidarity because of the implicit sharing of … distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from …
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Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption....
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A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure of the network. The observed patterns are consistent...
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studied in a simple game-theoretic model. Market, state, and community as three institutional alternatives for solving this …
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