Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants’ Social Capital in Europe: Participation, Organisational Networks, and Public Policies at the Local Level

Social Capital and Local Governance Regimes: Early Childhood Development Roundtables in British Columbia

The concept of social capital has received enormous attention in the social sciences and beyond. Researchers have shown a particular interest in “neighbourhood effects” – how neighbourhood social capital and local area environments might impact a variety of outcomes in positive and negative ways. However, insufficient attention has been given to issues of local governance in the social capital ...

Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies; Comment on “Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups”

This commentary discusses the interesting and surprising findings by Hagen and colleagues, focusing on the role of the public health coordinator as a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool. The original article finds a negative association between the employment of public health coordinators in Norwegian municipalities and consideration of a fair distribution of social and economic resources betwee...

analyzing‌ ‌and analyzing‌ ‌the influence‌ ‌of‌ ‌social‌ ‌capital‌ ‌on‌ ‌the ‎political‌ ‌participation‌ ‌of people‎(Case Study of Ilam City)‎

.Abstract The concept and theory of social capital has been met with considerable interest by scholars and scholars in the various social sciences (economics, sociology, political science, etc.) since the 1990s. Social capital is a matter of great interest to scientists and political elites. It is attempted to empirically test the theory of social capital in terms of the dominant rea...

Explaining Political Participation in East-Central Europe: Social Capital, Democracy and the Communist Past

Education Level and Self-rated Health in the United States: Immigrants’ Diminished Returns

Introduction: Although education is among the major socioeconomic status (SES) resources that influence populations’ and individuals’ health, social marginalization may reduce the health gain that follows access to SES indicators such as education, a pattern called marginalization-related diminished return (MDR). The literature on MDRs, however, has been mainly derived from stu...