... capital and social capital accumulated within a noble milieu functioned as the only remaining resources, and intelligentsia-oriented professions became the most accessible positions for previous land proprietors. Nonetheless, there are still noticeable distinctions between these groups. Polish...

.... For the European post-Communist cases, the pattern of the relationship between the regime type and the propensity to associate closely resembles the one in Latin mature democracies and non-authoritarian countries, provided that voluntary associations are chosen as measurements of vitality of social capital...

..., sustainable goals and appropriate programs, high level of corruption, general socio-cultural (moral) crisis, passive civil position of society, lack of democracy, and inadequacy of institutions, for example, the higher education system. The contemporary problems of social capital development and inefficiency...

... 2019 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Trust in institutions Baltic states Regime support Social capital Explaining trust in political institutions: Some illustrations from...

...Steven C. Buttrick; John P. Moran This paper argues that there is a spurious correlation between social capital and economic development in the regions of post-communist Russia. This argument rejects Robert Putnam’s collectivist hypothesis that social capital is the ubiquitous cause of economic...

...Christopher Marsh The two basic objectives of this study are to determine whether or not Russia has stocks of social capital upon which to draw as it seeks to democratize, and to examine the nature of the relationship between social capital and democracy in Russia. I present both qualitative...