Much of the social capital literature focuses on unambiguous social situations where actors share generalized trust or interpersonal trust. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in northwest Azerbaijan, this thesis focuses instead on distrust and the negotiation of conflicting interpret…
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This study examines how Political Entrepreneurs in the United States Congress responded to human rights abuses in six countries during the 1970s and 1980s: Cambodia, El Salvador, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, and Uganda. It presents a four-point model for approaching t…
This is an interdisciplinary research focusing on the role of civil society organizations in the democratization process in Egypt. In this endeavor, democratization is seen as a continuum encompassing dynamics of transformation from authoritarianism to full-fledged democracy. Eg…
The current study examined the association between social capital and subjective well-being (SWB) in rural Ethiopia. The current study used the 2009 Ethiopian Rural Household Study (ERHS) with a sample of 1277 households. It was hypothesized that social capital is positively ass…
This thesis examines a development program delivery system as if it were a commodity value chain. Within this chain, organizations are linked by a series of contracts and sub-contracts through which resources and ideas are traded downward, to program beneficiaries, in exchange f…
This dissertation provides an analysis of Turkish-American diaspora philanthropy - done through social and human capital transfers - and its role in impacting local development in Turkey. The study offers the consideration of a new kind of diaspora philanthropy, namely innovativ…
Recently, basic education has been considered as one of the most important fundamentals to adjust the inequality problem and further, to alleviate poverty in developing countries such as Bangladesh. On the background of this expectation for basic education, there have been some …
This research evaluates how people face uncertainty in their lives when they cannot purchase insurance in formal markets. It is concerned with how rural households in less developed countries (LDC) face risk by creating social capital via exchange relationships and how these exc…
How do different opportunity structures influence Russian minority responses, such as varied rates of exit (emigration) and varied degrees of voice (political mobilization), to post-Soviet challenges? What accounts for variation in type of Russian voice? Russian minority politic…
This dissertation consists of three essays examining the micro- and macro-determinants of economic development. In the first essay, focusing on a panel of Indonesian households, we study whether social capital improves household welfare by enabling families to smooth consumption…
Considering that contemporary extension systems tend to become decentralized, market-driven, pluralistic, and characterized by farmers taking a leadership role, it is evident that the coordinated and active participation of farmers in modern extension systems is required. Extens…
The primary focus of this study is to explore the relationship between structural factors of a specific society and occurrence of terror related crimes. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to examine how or to what extent social disorganization theory, which is the basic…
In the academic literature on designing effective institutions of poverty alleviation programs and policies in sub-Saharan Africa, it is rare to find direct assessments of the success of particular social policies and programs. In country after country, one is much more likely t…
This research investigated the use of social capital by Nigerian Yoruba immigrant parents and its relevance to the educational performance of their children. The research question was: What is the role of social capital in the educational performance of Nigerian immigrant childr…
This thesis has argued that the contradictions of state restructuring in response to the internationalization of capital can be understood with reference to the contradiction between the internationality of capital accumulation and the nationality of states. This contradiction i…
Can disasters stimulate the formation of social capital in communities? What are the factors that may lead to the formation and transformation of social capital in the context of a disaster? What policy lessons could we derive for utilization of social capital by planners and po…
By two cases, Amity Foundation and Shanghai YMCA, the paper described the situation of the contemporary China's Christianity-based social service organizations, analyzed the social capital they have generated, and explored their influence on the development of civil society in C…
This focused ethnography of the Santri 'strict adherent' monolithic Islam region of Demak, North Java, describes social, religious, and political dimensions. Santri Muslim men engage in ongoing pursuit of the holistic berkah 'Allah's blessing' complex through a wide range of tra…
Contemporary Muslim-Christian relations, globally as well as in the Middle East and in Egypt--the case study for this research--are influenced by a multitude of dynamic political, social, cultural and economic factors. Utilizing the Protracted Social Conflict theory as an overar…
Drawing on both conceptual and empirical evidence, this text presents the case for the centrality of social policy development, particularly with regard to economic policy.