An interdisciplinary collection of historical and comparative articles on civil society and the social capital debate.

As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what make

Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of

In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and c

Social Capital and Entrepreneurship concludes by examining the tension between the properties of social networks used in entrepreneurship researchers' models an