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Author(s): C. Cecchi & E. Basile
Abstract:
This paper deals with the process of building social capital as constrained by the
availability of public and private services.
The purpose is to show that social
capital shapes, both in positive and negative terms, the capacity of local
institutions to support development projects and strategies.
The analysis shows
that a higher level of social capital gives to communities a stronger planning
capacity; a lower level of social capital implies that new initiatives are
implemented only if they give private individual benefits; a higher level of social
capital generates actions that increase and improve social capital itself.
The first section outlines the logical links between the concept of social
capital and the availability of “services”.
Social capital is seen here as a public
good.
Section 3 focuses on the relationship between the supply of public services
and the level of social capital.
Section 4 compares the Italian case with other
cases in Northern Europe.
The concluding section shows the relationship between marginality and the
availability of public goods.
It contributes to the analysis of the relationship
between social capital and development, showing that there is both a theoretical
framework and evidence to justify the “principle” that public action supporting
social capital has a major role in determining the performance of development
strategies and actions.
Keywords:
social capital, rural marginal areas, planning systems.
1 Introduction
Social capital is frequently considered as a public good.
For example the UK
National Statistical [19] agrees with Putnam [21] and adopts this definition:
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Pages: 10
Size: 748 kb
Paper DOI: 10.2495/RAV060141
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