Social Capital in Transition: A First Look at the Evidence*

By Claire D. Wallace, M. Raiser, C. Haerpfer. 2002

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This paper provides what we believe to be the first collection of data on social capital in the transition countries of Central/Eastern Europe and of the former Soviet Union. Using data from the World Values Survey 1990 and 1995 we document the de- gree of trust and of civic participation and find that these indicators of social capital are significantly lower than in OECD countries. The paper also provides a preliminary in- vestigation of the link between social capital and growth during transition. Unlike in market economies, in transition countries trust is not positively related to growth; while participation in civic organisations shows a positive correlation. We also construct in- dicators of trust in public institutions and find positive correlations with growth rates. The positive association of civic participation with growth is robust to the use of in- strumental variable techniques to control for potential problems of endogeneity. Sociologický casopis/Czech Sociological Review, 2002, Vol. 38, No. 6: 693-720

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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