Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy

The Strength of Weak Ties

1973 • 36,856 citations

Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community

2000 • 29,291 citations

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

1991 • 26,746 citations

Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

2000 • 22,158 citations

Foundations of social theory

1990 • 17,829 citations

Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy

1993 • 15,320 citations

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

1996 • 10,829 citations

Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition

1995 • 8,054 citations

Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others?

1999 • 7,961 citations

Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation

1997 • 7,436 citations

The Strategy of Economic Development

1959 • 6,612 citations

Encountering development: the making and unmaking of the Third World

1995 • 5,575 citations

Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies

1997 • 5,217 citations

INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES

1995 • 5,146 citations

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance.

1991 • 4,871 citations

Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms

1963 • 4,836 citations

Activists beyond Borders

2014 • 4,801 citations

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.

1995 • 4,644 citations

Untitled

1998 • 4,504 citations

The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life

1993 • 4,237 citations

When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor.

1998 • 3,770 citations

Embedded autonomy: states and industrial transformation

1995 • 3,666 citations

The Contingent Value of Social Capital

1997 • 3,419 citations

Cornell University Press

2014 • 3,416 citations

Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action

1993 • 3,382 citations

Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America

1995 • 3,187 citations

The Truly Disadvantaged

1987 • 2,534 citations

Crossing the great divide: Coproduction, synergy, and development

1996 • 2,316 citations

Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States.

1993 • 2,050 citations

The asset vulnerability framework: Reassessing urban poverty reduction strategies

1998 • 1,973 citations

Untitled

1999 • 1,382 citations

Government action, social capital and development: Reviewing the evidence on synergy

1996 • 1,344 citations

Explaining African Economic Performance

1999 • 1,322 citations

The downside of social capital

1996 • 1,312 citations

No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

1994 • 1,254 citations

What's Driving Mexico-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis

1997 • 1,240 citations

Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of "Weberian" State Structures on Economic Growth

1999 • 1,239 citations

The Rural School Community Center

1916 • 1,208 citations

Measuring Social Capital in Five Communities

2000 • 1,198 citations

The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith

1998 • 1,119 citations

The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

1998 • 1,072 citations

Cents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania

1999 • 1,020 citations

Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics

1999 • 966 citations

A Dynamic Theory of Racial Income Differences

1976 • 940 citations

Parts I and II

1982 • 912 citations

Immigrant Self-Employment: The Family as Social Capital and the Value of Human Capital

1996 • 884 citations

Good government in the tropics

1998 • 852 citations

Assessing aid - what works, what doesn't, and why

1998 • 839 citations

Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy

2000 • 797 citations

A Dimensional Approach to Measuring Social Capital: Development and Validation of a Social Capital Inventory

2001 • 784 citations

THE GENDER OF SOCIAL CAPITAL

1998 • 754 citations

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

1996 • 739 citations

Brown kids in white suburbs: Housing mobility and the many faces of social capital

1998 • 674 citations

Untitled

2001 • 656 citations

The Economic Sociology of Immigration.

1998 • 631 citations

The struggle for accountability: the World Bank, NGOs, and grassroots movements.

1998 • 629 citations

Social Capability and Economic Growth

1998 • 623 citations

How does civil society thicken? the political construction of social capital in rural Mexico

1996 • 614 citations

Is It Time to Disinvest in Social Capital?

1999 • 605 citations

Women, Minorities, and Employment Discrimination.

1978 • 556 citations

Social Capital and the Adaptation of the Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans

1994 • 533 citations

Towards a New Paradigm for Development: Strategies, Policies and Processes

2002 • 508 citations

The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs

2000 • 472 citations

Local Organizations: Intermediaries in Rural Development.

1985 • 465 citations

The Developmental State Is Dead—Long Live Social Capital?

1999 • 444 citations

Social capital

2003 • 429 citations

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2001/2002

2002 • 414 citations

The Politics of economic adjustment: international constraints, distributive conflicts, and the state

1992 • 396 citations

Voices of the poor

1997 • 386 citations

Behind the market stage where real societies exist ‐ part II: The role of moral norms

1994 • 329 citations

Confronting crisis; a comparative study of household responses to poverty and vulnerability in four poor urban communities

1997 • 321 citations

Social Capital, Household Welfare, and Poverty in Indonesia

1999 • 318 citations

Family Demography, Social Theory, and Investment in Social Capital

1999 • 282 citations

Voices of the poor

1997 • 279 citations

The case against

1997 • 266 citations

Participation, social capital, and intersectoral problem solving: African and Asian cases

1996 • 260 citations

Learning from Gal Oya - Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science

1996 • 252 citations

Social capital, growth, and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence

2002 • 251 citations

Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Political Science

1995 • 237 citations

Social Capital and the Political Economy of Our Discontent

1997 • 236 citations

Perverse Social Capital—Some Evidence from Colombia

1997 • 234 citations

Private Action and the Public Good.

1999 • 233 citations

Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data

1995 • 229 citations

Social capital as a product of class mobilization and state intervention: Industrial workers in Kerala, India

1996 • 229 citations

Where Did All the Growth Go

1994 • 196 citations

The case "against" social capital

1999 • 196 citations

Civil society, social capital, and development: Dissection of a complex discourse

1997 • 189 citations

Initial Conditions, Social Capital and Growth in Africa

1998 • 180 citations

The Forgotten Rationale for Policy Reform: The Productivity of Investment Projects

1999 • 171 citations

Social capital, houshold welfare, and poverty in Indonesia

1999 • 156 citations

Learning from Failures in Microfinance

1999 • 154 citations

Does participation improve project performance: establishing causality with subjective data

1994 • 150 citations

The Political Economy of Ethnicity

1998 • 148 citations

MISSING LINK OR ANALYTICALLY MISSING? THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL

1997 • 143 citations

Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life.

1956 • 126 citations

Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries

2005 • 100 citations

Democratic Rural Development: Leadership Accountability in Regional Peasant Organizations

1992 • 96 citations

Something Left to Lose: Personal Relations and Survival among New York's Homeless.

1998 • 93 citations

Enterprise performance and the functional diversity of social capital.

1998 • 85 citations

Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Development Projects

2000 • 84 citations

Building Social Capital in Thailand: Fibers, Finance, and Infrastructure

1999 • 82 citations

Designing community based development

1995 • 82 citations

Societies, polities and capitalists in developing countries: A literature survey

1997 • 81 citations

The Effect of Social Capital on Technology Adoption: Evidence from Rural Tanzania

2001 • 78 citations

Local Institutions, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Bolivia

2001 • 75 citations

Confronting Crisis. A Comparative Study of Household Responses to Poverty and Vulnerability in Four Poor Urban Communities. Environmentally Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series No. 8.

1996 • 70 citations

The World Bank and Social Capital: Contesting the Concept in Practice

1997 • 58 citations

Dimensions of Development

2000 • 48 citations

Social protection as social risk management: conceptual underpinnings for the social protection sector strategy paper

1999 • 44 citations

Learning from the poor : a participatory poverty assessment in Kenya

1996 • 36 citations

Integrated approaches to poverty assessment in India.

2000 • 34 citations

Democratic Rural Development: Leadership Accountability in Regional Peasant Organizations, Development and Change

1992 • 5 citations