[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] Job: Social Capital Research, CPS, Budapest (deadline 4.11.)

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 andrew cartwright <andycartwright23 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:From andrew cartwright Fri Oct 18 06:42:30 2002
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From: andrew cartwright 
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:42:30 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [balkans] Job: Social Capital Research, CPS, Budapest (deadline 4.11.)

Social Capital Research in Central and Eastern Europe 
Request for literature review

Background
The Center for Policy Studies (www.ceu.hu/cps) is an
academic unit within the Central European University,
Budapest.  Recently created, its role is to stimulate
policy debate through the production and dissemination
of high quality research. CPS intends to participate
in a Europe-wide research network investigating
questions of trust,co-operation and institutional
development. To that end, we are commissioning a
literature reviewer to examine social capital research
carried out in Central and Eastern Europe.

Social capital research encompasses the relations
between trust,networks and norms to social, economic
and, more recently, institutional development.  It
attracts the attention of a range of social
scientists,
particularly, education research, political science
and development studies.  Its significance, perhaps,
is in the degree that the concept has been taken up by
those outside the academic field, by policy makers,
politicians and international donors for example. 
Perhaps because of this diverse constituency, even
though the concept has been around for over thirty
years, there are still significant debates over the
basic features and importance of social capital.
Approaches can range from the enthusiastic, the World
Bank for instance, and its argument that social
capital can be the missing link in development, to the
hostile, critics for instance, that argue that social
capital research has no conception of power or
conflict.

Central and Eastern Europe (including the southern
non-accession countries) has provided and continues to
provide an interesting site forsocial capital
research.  In one set of studies, social capital seems
to provide justification for programs which aim at
invigorating civil society, something which fitted
very well with early approaches to post-socialist
reform.  On the other hand another theme within social
capital research is that social capital needs to be
classified into types, those that have positive
inclusive effects against those which were linked to
more exclusionary practices.  Again, this could have
resonance in the region, for instance, the
privatization process where the cultivation of
personal networks provided unfair advantages in
accessing supposedly public resources.

The Central and Eastern European region is an ideal
place to investigate the scientific utility as well as
the policy implications of social capital research. 
The aim of this literature review is to gather
and critically analyze social capital research
produced about the region. The review should focus on
comprehensive comparative studies, theoretical or
empirical studies, as well as research works that
focus
on one or more of the following issues:

1. Social capital and the development of organized
civil society.
2. Social capital and economic development, market
norms and the informal economy.
3. Negative social capital, closed communities, elite
reproduction.
4. Social Capital and access to public services, in
particular healthcare and education
5. Social capital and institutional change.

Requirements
1. Research should be carried out among both academic
and professional publications, i.e. publications from
the major developmental agencies and policy think
tanks. The Review should focus on publications in
English from 1990 to the present, should be between
25-30,000 words and completed within three months of
starting.
2. An annotated bibliography should be compiled with
precisebibliographical data being essential.
Annotations normally should not be longer than 3-400
words. The full-annotated bibliography should include
between 40-60 items. 
3. The reviewer should be willing to present
preliminary findings of the work at a conference on
Social Capital in Cluj-Napoca, January 31st-February
1st 2003.  All travel and conference related expenses
will be covered by CPS. See
http://www.ceu.hu/cps/bluebird/eve/eve_soccap.htm.
4. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and
experience.

Please a send a letter of interest describing your
capacities with a CV attached.  Furthermore, as the
literature is fragmented amongst the relatively
accessible academic field and the, perhaps less
accessible, professional domain, please describe in no
more than one paragraph how you would intend to
identify and gather the material for this literature
review. The deadline for arrival of application is
November 4th 2002

Please send all inquiries to
Andrew Cartwright, 
Center for Policy Studies, 
Central European University
1051 Budapest
Nador Utca 11
Hungary

Cartwrighta at ceu.hu 
Tel 36 1 327 3000 ext 2397
Fax  36 1 235 6170

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