Promoting Social Capital Through Public Policy in Hungary
Author: Andrew Cartwright Endre Sik Sara Svensson
Publisher: Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
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This paper is one of a series of papers contributed by the Center for Policy Studies/Central European University to the Social Capital and Social Policy Network for the project “Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries.” It is supported by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs.
As a contribution to the Social Situation Report 2007, the Terms of Reference for this paper were to produce a 5-page report on the question of whether public policy should aim at increasing the social capital stock, looking for evidence in Hungary that public policies can create social capital that have a “positive impact on living conditions” while “taking into account the debate on path dependence and historical determinism within the theory of social capital.”
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