Virtual issues
Virtual Issue on Social Capital
Edited by Martin Smith.
'Social Capital' has become one of the most widely used concepts in political science and is the subject of considerable debate. A growing accumulation of empirical material has tested the theory in a number of scenarios. In this Virtual Issue of the journal we bring together material published on social capital in Political Studies since 2000. The papers published offer a rich seam of empirical and conceptual material on the nature of social capital. Moreover, they provide a considerable body of material on the nature and impact of social capital at local, national and regional levels, and hence they allow for a comparative evaluation of the ways in which social capital affects both political behaviour and economic performance. The articles published here make a significant contribution to the debate on Social Capital.
List of articles
Kenneth Newton
Political Support: Social Capital, Civil Society, and Political and Economic Performance
Political Studies, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 846-864, Nov 2006, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00634.x
Lauren McLaren, Vanessa Baird
Of Time and Causality: A Simple Test of the Requirement of Social Capital in Making Democracy Work in Italy
Political Studies, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 889-897, Nov 2006, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00638.x
Graham Smith, William Maloney, Gerry Stoker
Building Social Capital in City Politics: Scope and Limitations at the Inter-organisational Level
Political Studies, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 508-530, Oct 2004, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2004.00493.x
Terrence Casey
Social Capital and Regional Economies in Britain
Political Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 96-117, Mar 2004, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2004.00466.x
Charles Pattie , Patrick Seyd and Paul Whitele
Citizenship and Civic Engagement: Attitudes and Behaviour in Britain
Political Studies, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 443-468, Oct 2003, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00435
Tony Burns, Sigrid Roβteutscher
Advocate or Reflection? Associations and Political Culture
Political Studies, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 514-528, Jul 2002, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00382
Vivien Lowndes, David Wilson
Social Capital and Local Governance: Exploring the Institutional Design Variable
Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 629-647, Feb 2002, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00334
William Maloney, Graham Smith, Gerry Stoker
Social Capital and Urban Governance: Adding a More Contextualized 'Top-down' Perspective
Political Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 802-820, Feb 2002, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00284
Paul F. Whiteley
Economic Growth and Social Capital
Political Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 443-466, Feb 2002, doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.00269