Civil Society and Social Capital Beyond Putnam

Edwards, Bob; Foley, Michael

doi:10.1177/0002764298042001010

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“…However, the voluntary association memberships identified in the GSS provide opportunities for individuals to develop and maintain social networks or relationships. If, as Edwards and Foley (1998) suggest, social capital should be treated as a "concept appropriate to social networks and organization," any indicator of social network structure can serve as a rough proxy for social capital. Ceteris paribus, as the number of memberships increases, the potential number of social network ties increases.…”

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Trends in Voluntary Association Participation

Rotolo

1999

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

104

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Researchers have claimed that trends in voluntary associationIn 1830, Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States with the aim of studying penal institutions. He soon enlarged the scope of his inquiry as he grew increasingly fascinated by the political and social conditions contributing to a thriving democracy in America. What particularly struck de Tocqueville was the propensity of citizens to join all manner of associations; he linked the vitality and success of democracy to this propensity. As he put it, "Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions, constantly form associations" (1945, p. 114). Without this propensity to participate, he made the alarming prediction that democratic societies would "become powerless" and "would soon relapse into barbarism" (1945, pp. 115-116).

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confidence: 99%

Trends in Voluntary Association Participation

Rotolo

1999

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

104

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“…New firms aiming to develop social capital and stakeholder networks may lack sufficient intangible resources, such as experience, knowledge accumulation, social capital, and relationship networks, to deal with stakeholders (Hillman, Schuler, and Keim, 2004;Boddewyn and Brewer, 1994;Hillman and Hitt, 1999;Edwards and Fowley, 1998). Thus, young firms have different priorities than established firms (Hannan and Freeman, 1984).…”

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Media Influence and Firms Behaviour: A Stakeholder Management Perspective

Voinea¹,

Kranenburg²

2017

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To better understand the media as a stakeholder we study the media influences and the types of actions used by firms to manage this stakeholder. A hegemonic approach to the subject argues that the media is part of an economic, political, social, and cultural struggle. Accordingly, different stakeholders and classes compete for dominance and attempt to impose their visions, interests, and agendas on society as a whole. Firms, along with other groups, struggle for social dominance by disseminating images through the media. By means of stakeholder management and organizational response literature we show that given the dependency on the media's accountability, answerability, and credibility, firms implement either strategic actions or fire -fighting actions. Evidence is brought from foreign firms in the traditional media business (print, radio, television) in the Netherlands, context characterized by freedom of the press, opinion, and information.

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“…While such foundational accounts of democratic political culture did not explicitly conceptualize this in terms of civil society, it has been recognized as such by others (Edwards and Foley 1999).…”

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The Varieties of Democracy Core Civil Society Index

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Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to the conceptualization and measurement of democracy. It is co-hosted by the University of Gothenburg and University of Notre Dame. With a V-Dem Institute at University of Gothenburg that comprises almost ten staff members, and a project team across the world with four Principal Investigators, fifteen Project Managers, 30+ Regional Managers, 170 Country Coordinators, Research Assistants, and 2,500 Country Experts, the V-Dem project is one of the largest-ever social science research-oriented data collection programs.Please address comments and/or queries for information to: AbstractThis paper introduces the Core Civil Society Index (CCSI), a measure of the robustness of civil society, using indicators from the Varieties of Democracy battery on civil society. It begins with a discussion of the reemergence of civil society as a central concept in comparative politics and discusses the existing state of data to capture it. It then discusses the conceptualization behind the CCSI and the construction of the measure. This is followed by a series of face and discriminant validity checks. The paper closes with an example of the CCSI's utility by examining the question of whether postcommunist civil society is "weak" compared to other regions. We find no evidence that postcommunist civil society is less robust than civil society in other major world regions via time-series cross-sectional analysis using 2999 country-year observations between 1989 and 2012.3

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Civil Society and Social Capital Beyond Putnam

Cited by 277 publications

References 22 publications

Trends in Voluntary Association Participation

Trends in Voluntary Association Participation

Media Influence and Firms Behaviour: A Stakeholder Management Perspective

The Varieties of Democracy Core Civil Society Index

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