The front line of social capital creation – A natural experiment in symbolic interaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 8-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Patulny ◽  
Peter Siminski ◽  
Silvia Mendolia
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Front Line

Social Capital and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Saint's Day Fiestas in Mexico

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Atkinson ◽  
Anthony Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Omitted Variables ◽  
Reverse Causation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Community Activity ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Percentage Points

Social capital and community activity are thought to increase voter turnout, but reverse causation and omitted variables may bias the results of previous studies. This article exploits saint's day fiestas in Mexico as a natural experiment to test this causal relationship. Saint's day fiestas provide temporary but large shocks to the connectedness and trust within a community, and the timing of these fiestas is quasi-random. For both cross-municipality and within-municipality estimates, saint's day fiestas occurring near an election decrease turnout by 2.5 to 3.5 percentage points. So community activities that generate social capital can inhibit political participation. These findings may give pause to scholars and policy makers who assume that such community activity and social capital will improve the performance of democracy.

scholarly journals Social capital in Scottish and Danish neighbourhoods: paradoxes of a police–community nexus at the front line

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Deuchar ◽  
Thomas Friis Søgaard ◽  
Chris Holligan ◽  
Kate Miller ◽  
Anthony Bone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Front Line

scholarly journals Residential relocation and change in social capital: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. e1700426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Hikichi ◽  
Yasuyuki Sawada ◽  
Toru Tsuboya ◽  
Jun Aida ◽  
Katsunori Kondo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Residential Relocation

Business: Conceptualizations of Organizational Change Viewed Through the Lens of Power: A Tutorial for the Speech-Language Pathologist/Audiologist Administrator

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Walden
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Organization Level ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Theories Of Change ◽  
Or Organization

Both educational and health care organizations are in a constant state of change, whether triggered by national, regional, local, or organization-level policy. The speech-language pathologist/audiologist-administrator who aids in the planning and implementation of these changes, however, may not be familiar with the expansive literature on change in organizations. Further, how organizational change is planned and implemented is likely affected by leaders' and administrators' personal conceptualizations of social power, which may affect how front line clinicians experience organizational change processes. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to introduce the speech-language pathologist/audiologist-administrator to a research-based classification system for theories of change and to review the concept of power in social systems. Two prominent approaches to change in organizations are reviewed and then discussed as they relate to one another as well as to social conceptualizations of power.

Make a Fine Front-Line Impression

ASHA Leader ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin D. St. Clergy
Keyword(s):  
Front Line
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