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Do community-driven development projects enhance social capital ? evidence from the Philippines [PDF]
This paper explores the social capital impacts of a large-scale, community-driven development project in the Philippines in which communities competed for block grants for infrastructure investment.
Chase, Robert S., Labonne, Julien
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Beyond Collective Supervision of Youth: Informal Social Control, Pro-social Investment and Delinquency in Urban Neighborhoods [PDF]
, 2011 poster abstractThe concentration of delinquency in certain neighborhoods represents a pervasive social inequality in the United States. Today, the distribution of urban delinquency is perhaps best described as “pockets of crime,” largely confined to ...
Leech, Tamara G.J.
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Determinants of household demand for services: Formal versus informal sector [PDF]
, 2012 This paper addresses the issue of household demand for services in Poland when informal sector is taken into consideration. The aim of the study is threefold: (i) to investigate the factors influencing households expenses for services, (ii) to find the ...
Styczynska, Izabela
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Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson +6 more
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Trust and Social Collateral [PDF]
This paper builds a theory of informal contract enforcement in social networks. In our model, relationships between individuals generate social collateral that can be used to control moral hazard when agents interact in a borrowing relationship.
Adam Szeidl, Markus Mobius
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What lies beneath? The role of informal and hidden networks in the management of crises [PDF]
, 2014 Crisis management research traditionally focuses on the role of formal communication networks in the escalation and management of organisational crises. Here, we consider instead informal and unobservable networks.
Ackroyd S. +27 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn +9 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio +5 more
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Editorial discourses in the history of Acta Paulista de Enfermagem (1988-2017) [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de EnfermagemObjectives: to analyze the editorial discourses of Acta Paulista de Enfermagem from 1988 to 2017. Methods: qualitative, historical, oral research, with interviews with the journal’s editors.
Ricardo Quintão Vieira +2 more
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Social life and political trust in China: Searching for machers and schmoozers [PDF]
, 2018 Previous literature has provided little evidence regarding the ways in which China’s burgeoning social life and rapid urbanization shape Chinese people’s level of trust in their government leaders. This article builds on Robert Putnam’s conceptualization
Bian Yanjie +8 more
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