Social Capital as a Policy Resource

Foreword. Social capital as a policy resource; J.D. Montgomery. Measuring social capital and its consequences; A. Inkeles. Both glue and lubricant: Transnational ethnic social capital as a source of Asia-Pacific subregionalism; Xiangming Chen. Social capital in the Japanese youth labor market: Labor market policy, schools, and norms; M.C. Brinton. Social capital and labor politics in Japan: Cooperation or cooptation? J.P. Broadbent. Social capital and power: Entrepreneurial elite and the state in contemporary China; Zhou Yongming. Trade unions and social capital in transitional communist states: The case of China; W. Taylor. Faith as social capital: Religion and community development in Southern Asia; C. Candland. Native social capital: The case of Hawaiian sovereignty and Ka Lahui Hawaii; Haunani-Kay Trask. Indigenous knowledge as intellectual property; C.H. Norchi. The World Bank and social capital: Lessons from ten rural development projects in the Philippines and Mexico; J. Fox, J. Gershman. Social capital in microfinance: Case studies in the Philippines; B.R. Quinones Jr., H.D. Seibel. Peasant federations and rural development policies in the Andes; T.F. Carroll, A.J. Bebbington. Social capital formation: The role of NGO rural development programs in Bangladesh; A.H. Mondal. Beyond community and society: The externalities of social capital building; J.M. Heffron. About the authors. Index.

`Few terms can match social capital's achievement of facilitating dialogue across sectors, regions, and disciplines. While maintaining a critical sensibility, these essays showcase the versatility, rigor, and usefulness of social capital scholarship at its best.' Michael Woolcock - World Bank `How may the connectedness among human beings help to advance important collective goals? This comprehensive book examines the sources of social capital in ethnic, religious, residential, occupational and other affinities. More importantly, it assesses how social capital influences such diverse endeavors as transnational entrepreneurship, the performance of high school students, the workings of labor markets and the efficacy of labor and peasant unions, and the outcomes of World Bank projects, among other topics. The book's reach across East Asia and beyond, and its focus on empirical case research, makes it a splendid fountain of comparative information and analysis on one of the key scholarly and practical topics of our time.' Jorge Dominguez - Harvard University `Rarely is a collection as timely or as useful. Anyone concerned with setting policy will find extraordinarily interesting this insightful treatment of a subject which is giving many of us considerable trouble. Here are enough new ideas to spark a dozen doctoral theses and a gross of journal articles.' Paul Rich - Professor of International Relations and History University of the Americas, Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University `This important collection of papers examines how social capital has been used to advance social policies - or alternatively, how social capital has complicated the implementation of social policies &endash; in nations on both sides of the Pacific. The cases range from India's Andaman Islands and Russia in Asia to the Andes, and prominently include China, Japan, and Southeast Asia along the way. They are based on first-hand field research in the areas, and serve as the platform