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UNINA9910777427503321 |
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Creation and returns of social capital : a new research program / / edited by Henk Flap and Beate Volker |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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1-134-49514-5 |
1-134-49515-3 |
1-280-17527-3 |
9786610175277 |
0-203-64364-X |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 9 |
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FlapHendrik Derk <1950-> |
VolkerBeate <1963-> |
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Social capital (Sociology) |
Social networks |
Social capital (Sociology) - Research - Methodology |
Social networks - Research - Methodology |
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Papers presented at a conference of international scholars in Amsterdam, held in 1999, and organized around the research of the SCALE research program supported by a grant from NWO [Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek], project number 510-05-0200. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Notes on the contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Part I Introduction to the program""; ""1 Creation and returns of social capital ""; ""The history of the social capital idea""; ""The theoretical backbone of the program""; ""The concept of social capital""; ""State of the art: the program works""; ""A research agenda of theoretically inspired problems""; ""(a) What are the main constituents of social capital and how are they distributed?""; ""(b) How do various effects of a person�s social capital depend on its constituents?"" |
""(c) How do social resources interact with other resources?""""(d) How is social capital created and maintained?""; ""(e) How do contact |
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opportunities influence the rise of social capital?""; ""(f) What is the effect of social institutions on social capital?""; ""(g) How are �property rights� of social capital defined?""; ""(h) How does social capital contribute to social inequality and cohesion?""; ""(i) What is the mechanism behind the productivity of social capital?""; ""(j) How should social capital be measured?""; ""Concluding remarks ""; ""Note""; ""References"" |
""Part II The distribution of social capital""""2 The distribution of gendered social capital in Canada ""; ""Why should we study gendered social capital?""; ""The formation of gendered social capital""; ""The data and measures""; ""The data sources""; ""Measures of social capital""; ""Predictors of social capital""; ""Results""; ""Basic facts about gender and social capital""; ""Social capital: a life-course approach""; ""Ascribed characteristics""; ""Education""; ""Work""; ""Household income""; ""Family life""; ""Voluntary associations""; ""Social capital and kinds of places"" |
""Atlantic Canada""""Urban versus rural""; ""Social capital for the whole sample""; ""Social capital for men and women""; ""Conclusions""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""3 Does social capital offset social and economic inequalities? ""; ""The volume and structure of social capital as a resource""; ""Data""; ""The survey""; ""The name generator""; ""Household differentiation variables""; ""Main findings""; ""One-/two-way support""; ""Kin and non-kin exchange""; ""Palliative economic effects of support networks?""; ""Capital accumulation""; ""Support and living standards"" |
""Are there any utilitarian attitudes to support?""""Discussion: the social capital metaphor""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part III The creation of social capital""; ""4 Information and the creation and return of social capital ""; ""The experimental method and social capital""; ""The experiment""; ""The public good game""; ""Dictator game""; ""Treatment variable�information""; ""Research hypotheses: creation and returns of social capital""; ""The creation of social capital""; ""The returns of social capital investment""; ""Results""; ""Behavior in the public good game"" |
""Behavior of dictators and non-dictators"" |
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UNINA9910787541603321 |
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Human Rights NGO's in East Africa : Political and Normative Tensions / / Makau Mutua |
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Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] |
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©2009 |
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1 online resource (399 p.) |
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Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights |
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Democracy - Africa, Eastern |
Civil society - Africa, Eastern |
Non-governmental organizations - Africa, Eastern |
Democratization - Africa, Eastern |
Human rights - Africa, Eastern |
Africa, Eastern Politics and government 1960- |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction / Mutua, Makau -- PART I. Defining Challenges to Civil Society in East Africa -- CHAPTER ONE. Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Defining the Challenges / Mutua, Makau -- CHAPTER TWO. To Whom, for What, and About What? The Legitimacy of Human Rights NGOs in Kenya / Murungi, Betty K. -- PART II. Interrogating NGO Mandates: Gender, Sexuality, and ESC Rights -- CHAPTER THREE. Law, Sexuality, and Politics in Uganda: Challenges for Women's Human Rights NGOs / Tamale, Sylvia -- CHAPTER FOUR. NGO Struggles for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in UTAKE: A Ugandan Perspective / Oloka-Onyango, Joe -- CHAPTER FIVE. Feminist Masculinity: Advocacy for Gender Equality and Equity / Mutunga, Willy -- CHAPTER SIX. Women's Advocacy: Engendering and Reconstituting the Kenyan State / Muteshi, Jacinta K. -- PART III. Donors and Grantees: Convergences and Divergences -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Donors and Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities / Ngondi-Houghton, Connie -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Contradictions in Neoliberalism: Donors, Human Rights NGOs, and Governance in Kenya / Kanyinga, |
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Karuti -- PART IV. State/Civil Society Relations -- CHAPTER NINE. State and Civil Society Relations: Constructing Human Rights Groups for Social Change / Sewanyana, Livingstone -- CHAPTER TEN. Governance and Democracy in Kenya: Challenges for Human Rights NGOs / Miano, J. Wanjiku -- PART FIVE. NGO Institutional Case Studies -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Mrican Women's Development and Communication Network: Pan-Mrican Organizing in Human Rights / Wanyeki, L. Muthoni -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Social Transformation in Uganda: A Study of Grassroots NGOs / Nabudere, Dani W. -- PART VI. South/South and North/South NGO Relations -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Death Penalty in East Africa: Law and Transnational Advocacy / Burnham, Margaret A. -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Democracy Organizations in Political Transitions: IDASA and the New South Africa / Gupta, Shaila / Kellman, Alycia -- Conclusion: Coming of Age: NGOs and State Accountability in East Mrica / Peter, Chris Maina -- NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are by definition not part of the state. Rather, they are an element of civil society, the strands of the fabric of organized life in countries, and crucial to the prospect of political democracy. Civil society is a very recent phenomenon in East African nations, where authoritarian regimes have prevailed and human rights watchdogs have had a critical role to play. While the state remains one of the major challenges to human rights efforts in the countries of the region, other problems that are internal to the human rights movement are also of a serious nature, and they are many: What are the social bases of the human rights enterprise in transitional societies? What mandate can human rights NGOs claim, and in whose name do they operate? Human Rights NGO's in East Africa critically explores the anatomy of the human rights movement in the East African region, examining its origins, challenges, and emergent themes in the context of political transitions. In particular, the book seeks to understand the political and normative challenges that face this young but vibrant civil society in the vortex of globalization. The book brings together the most celebrated human rights thinkers in East Africa, enriched by contributions from their colleagues in South Africa and the United States. To date, very little has been written about the struggles and accomplishments of civil society in the nations of East Africa. This book will fill that gap and prove to be an invaluable tool for understanding and teaching about human rights in this complex and vital part of the world. |
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