community. Based on these definitions, a conceptual framework for analyzing and measuring social capital and its indicators is … of three prototype communities–a small rural community, a modern city suburb, and a community located in the core of a … central city are outlined. For each prototype community, social capital formation strategies and indicators suggesting …

We analyze conflicts between communities. A community-specific public good, to which members make voluntary … contributions, defines communities. Some, but not all, members of one community may contribute towards another community’s public …’ of communities in this sense provides incentives to individuals to support confiscation of the other community’s wealth …

We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income … communities. Ideologies of community solidarity may well trump those of class solidarity because of the implicit sharing of … distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from …

goods, and has strong implications for class and community solidarity. …We investigate how voluntary contributions to community-specific public goods affect (a) the relationship between …

The study was carried out to assess the benefits derived from SACDP/IFAD through community based participatory projects … benefitted from one project or the other and have subsequently replicated similar community based initiatives. It is recommended … from community based participatory projects and participation in self-help initiatives. …

when it is groups such as localities and ethnicities. We model instead a group as a “community”, meaning thereby a … collection of individuals who have access to a community-specific public good, from which non-members are excluded. Such … poverty alleviation leads to seemingly paradoxical rules, such as targeting transfers to the community that is richer. Total …

place by asking respondents how much money it would take to convince them to move to another community. Regional differences …