Studies in Public Policy

Publications on Social Capital

People who lived in a non-market party state learned the value of social networks for getting things done long before social capital became a buzzword. Hence when the CSPP began conducting Barometer surveys of mass response to transformation in post-Communist countries, questionnaires included a variety of questions about informal networks operating used to get things done. Some networks produced goods and services without money (for example, growing food at a dacha or household repair) whereas other networks re-allocated goods contrary to formal bureaucratic rules.

Since 1991 CSPP questionnaires have been used in more than 100 nation-wide Barometer surveys in many post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. (For details, go to Barometer Surveys on the CSPP Home Page).

Because of the shortage of quantitative analysis of the new democracies, questions and answers to all surveys are published within weeks of completion as SPP papers, as are analyses based on this data or on related data conducted by researchers elsewhere. The following list covers SPP papers that explicitly use the term social capital. A full list of publications drawing on Barometer surveys, including many papers where the social capital idea, if not the label, is used, can be accessed through the Publications link on the CSPP Home Page.

Explicit Social Capital Studies

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SPP 454. Securing the Health of Older People: An Equilibrium Model. Richard Rose.

SPP 434  Stresses and Opportunities of Post-Communist Transformation: The Impact on Health. Richard Rose and Martin Bobak.

SPP 433 What Makes a Good Citizen? Attitudes towards Civic Virtue in Europe and How Social and Political Participation Impact upon Them. Florian Pichler and Claire Wallace.

SPP 431 Social Capital and Social Class in Europe: The Role of Social Networks in Social Stratification. Florian Pichler and Claire Wallace.

SPP 425 A Pension is not a Person: The Portfolio of Resources of Older People. Richard Rose.

SPP 413 Internet Diffusion in Russia: A Model of a Laggard Catching Up. Richard Rose.

SPP 410 Fair Treatment in a Divided Society: A Bottom Up Assessment of Bureaucratic Encounters in Latvia. David J. Galbreath & Richard Rose.

SPP 408 Going Public with Private Opinions: Are Post-communist Citizens Afraid to Say What They Think?. Professor Richard Rose.

SPP 388 New Russia Barometer XIII: Putin's Re-Election. Richard Rose.

SPP 386 Political Trust, Turnout and Governance Capital. Richard Rose.

SPP 380 Health, Money and Wellbeing: Subjective Responses to Post-soviet Transformation. Richard Rose.

SPP 374 What Are The Political Consequences of Trust? A Russian Structural Equation Model. William Mishler and Richard Rose.

SPP 371 Two Faces of Post-Communist Change: The Internet and Insecurity. Richard Rose.

SPP 362 Social Shocks, Social Confidence and Health. Richard Rose.

SPP 358 The Impact of Social Capital on Health. Richard Rose.

SPP 356 What Does Social Capital Add to Democratic Values? Richard Rose and Craig Weller.

SPP 354 The Internet's Impact on East Asian Governance: Openness, Impersonal Rules and Accountability. Richard Rose.

SPP 337 Smoking and Drinking in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Martin Mckee and Richard Rose.

SPP 329 How Much Does Social Capital Add to Individual Health? A Survey Study of Russians. Professor Richard Rose.

SPP 325 Free Not to Participate: The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-communist Europe. Marc Morjé Howard.

SPP 324 Modern, Pre-modern and Anti-modern Social Capital in Russia. Professor Richard Rose.

SPP 318 What Does Social Capital Add to Individual Welfare? An Empirical Analysis of Russia. Professor Richard Rose.

SPP 310 Trust in Untrustworthy Institutions: Culture and Institutional Performance in Post-communist Europe. Williammishler and Richard Rose.

SPP 304 Getting Things Done in an Anti-modern Society: Social Capital Networks in Russia. Richard Rose, CSPP.

SPP 303 Getting Things Done with Social Capital: New Russia Barometer vii. Richard Rose, CSPP.

SPP 302 Qualities of Incomplete Democracies: Russia, The Czech Republic and Korea Compared. Richard Rose and Don Chull Shin.

SPP 301 Social Networks and Civil Society Inprocesses of Democratization. James L. Gibson, U. of Houston.

SPP 299 Surveying The Health of Russians. M. Bobak, L. Chenet, C. Hertzman, D. Leon, M. Mckee, M. Marmot, H. Pikhart, R. Rose and V. Shkolnikov.

SPP 285 Primordialand Minority Pressures in Lithuania. Terry D. Clark, Creighton University, Omaha.

SPP 278 Getting Real: Social Capital in Post-communist Societies. Richard Rose, CSPP, William Mishler, University of Arizona and Christian Haerpfer, Paul Lazarsfeld Society.

SPP 263 Social Capital and Adaptation to Social Change in Russian Villages. David J. O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry Dershem & Oksana Lylova, U. of Missouri and Russian Academy of Sciences.

SPP 252 Trust, Distrust and Skepticism About Institutions of Civil Society. William Mishler, University of South Carolina and Richard Rose, CSPP.

SPP 219 Consensus or Dissensus in Welfare Values in Post-Communist Societies? Richard Rose and Toni Makkai.

SPP 209 Who Grows Food in Eastern Europe? Richard Rose and Evgeny Tikhomirov.

SPP 207 From the Second Economy to the Informal Economy. Endre Sik.

SPP 206 Divisions and Contradictions in Economies in Transition: Household Portfolios in Russia, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Richard Rose.