Social Capital in Focus

Synergy Approach to Social Capital

This view attempts to integrate the compelling work emerging from the networks and institutional approaches (Woolcock and Narayan 2000)[1]. Authors include Fox (1992)[2]; Evans (1992[3], 1995[4], 1996[5]); Rose (1998)[6]; Woolcock (1998)[7]; Narayan (1999)[8]; and Fox and Brown (1998)[9]. Woolcock and Narayan (2000, p. 236) identified that the three central key tasks for synergy view theorists, researchers and policymakers is to ‘identify the nature and extent of a community’s social relationships and formal institutions, and the interaction between them; develop institutional strategies based on these social relations, particularly the extent of bonding and bridging social capital; and to determine how the positive manifestations of social capital cooperation, trust and institutional efficiency can offset sectarianism, isolationism and corruption’.

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This article is part of a thesis submitted to the University of Queensland, Australia. You should reference this work as:

Claridge, T., 2004. Social Capital and Natural Resource Management: An important role for social capital? Unpublished Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

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Footnotes

  1. Woolcock, Michael, and Deepa Narayan. 2000. “Social capital:  Implications for development theory, research, and policy.” The World Bank Research Observer 15: 225-249. ^
  2. Fox, Jonathan. 1992. ‘Democratic Rural Development: Leadership accountability in rural peasant organisations.’ Development Change 23: 1-36. ^
  3. Evans, Peter. 1992. ‘The state as problem and solution: Predation, embedded autonomy, and structural change.’ in The politics of economic adjustment: International constraints, disruptive conflicts and the state, edited by Robert Kaufman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ^
  4. Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded autonomy: States and industrial transformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ^
  5. Evans, Peter. 1996. ‘Government action, social capital and development: Reviewing the evidence on synergy.’ World Development 24: 1119-1132. ^
  6. Rose, Richard. 1998. “Getting things done in an anti-modern society: social capital networks in Russia.” Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Social Development Department. ^
  7. Woolcock, Michael. 1998. “Social capital and economic development: Towards a theoretical synthesis and policy framework.” Theory and Society 27: 151-208. ^
  8. Narayan, Deepa, and Lant Pritchett. 1999. “Social capital: Evidence and implications.” Pp. 269-296 in Social Capital: A multifaceted perspective, edited by Ismail Serageldin. Washington, DC: World Bank. ^
  9. Fox, Jonathan, and L. David Brown. 1998. The struggle for accountability: The World Bank, NGOs and the grassroots movement. Cambridge: MIT Press. ^