Table Of Contents:
List of contributors ix
Preface xvii
1 The troika of sociology, political science and economics 1

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen and Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen
PART I WHY COOPERATION? CLASSICAL EXPLANATIONS

2 The meaning of social capital and its link to collective action 17

Elinor Ostrom and T.K Ahn

3 Cooperation: evidence from experiments 36

Anders Poulsen

4 Grid-group analysis 57

D. Douglas Caulkins
PART II WHY COOPERATION? RECENT EXPLANATIONS

5 Social capital in the brain? 75

Michael Bang Petersen, Andreas Roepstorff and S酶ren Serritzlew

6 Humour 93

Peter Gundelach

7 Religio-philosophical roots 107

Ralph Weber
PART III CORRUPTION AND THE QUALITY OF INSTITUTIONS

8 Corruption 127

Eric M. Uslaner

9 Social capital: the dark side 143

Peter Graeff

10 Social capital in East-Central Europe 162

Natalia Letki
PART IV THE WELFARE STATE

11 The state 179

Francisco Herreros

12 The universal welfare state 197

Bo Rothstein

13 The Nordic welfare state 212

Thora Margareta Bertilsson and Christian Hjorth-Andersen
PART V THE ROLE OF THE STATE

14 Tax compliance 231

Lars P. Feld

15 The environment 252

Kim Mannemar S酶nderskov

16 The labour market 272

Fabio Sabatini
PART VI MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION

17 Locational choice, ethnicity and assimilation 289

Gil S. Epstein

18 Making integration work 303

Peter Nannestad
PART VII THE ECONOMY

19 Economic inequality 323

Henrik Jordahl

20 Economic growth 337

Christian Bj酶rnskov

21 The macro perspective on generalized trust 354

Martin Paldam
PART VIII MEASUREMENT

22 Mixed methods assessment 379

Veronica Nyhan Jones and Michael Woolcock

23 The sociability of nations: international comparisons in bonding, bridging and linking social capital 402

Roger Patulny

24 Building social capital 428

Robert Chase and Rikke N酶rding Christensen
Index 445