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Zum Zusammenhang zwischen ethnischer Heterogenität, Sozialkapital (Vertrauen, freiwilliges Engagement, Mitgliedschaft … Sozialkapital haben die Projektergebnisse den erwarteten negativen Zusammenhang zwischen objektiver, d.h. statistisch ausgewiesener …Existing evidence on the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity, social capital (trust, voluntarism, associational …
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We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to …
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Conflict is either caused by, or brings about, drastic changes in the underlying social relationships between members … of a community involved in the conflict. The conflict literature has taken note, and a growing number of studies attempt … to determine the relationship between conflict and social capital. Unfortunately, there are many problems that have …
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Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...
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Beugelsdijk S. and Van Schaik T. (2005) Differences in social capital between 54 Western European regions, Regional Studies 39 , 1053-1064. Based on the extant literature, a newly developed index measuring social capital at the regional level in Europe is presented. It is shown that there are...
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THE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN OUR TIMES IMPOSE A GROWING IMPORTANCE TO 'TRUST' AS A RESOURCE BETWEEN PERSONAL … REDUCING OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY IN OUR NEAPOLITAN REALITY, WE ASSUME THAT IS BETTER TO 'RELIANCE' RATHER THAN TO TRUST. FOR THE …
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better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health …
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to shed light on how individual experiences of conflict shape political and social preferences. The investigation covers … World War II and recent civil conflict. Overwhelmingly, the results point to the negative and enduring legacy of war …-related violence on political trust and perceived effectiveness of national institutions, although the effects are heterogeneous across …
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Guinea-Bissau endured a major conflict in 1998 and has suffered from persistent political instability since … others, about changes in well-being over time, trust in various institutions, sources of conflicts at the local level, and … result of the conflict, as well as a lack of improvement since then, at least for those in poverty who are highly vulnerable …
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