How does civil society thicken? the political construction of social capital in rural Mexico

Fox, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/0305-750x(96)00025-3

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“…While survey-based work on social capital has been more oriented toward showing the economic/income e ects of social capital rather than the mechanisms through which these e ects occur, more ethnographic work has tended to focus on causal mechanisms without necessarily showing that these have in fact a ected rural peoplesÕ poverty (e.g., Fox, 1996). Nonetheless, this work is instructive because it does suggest ways in which social capital apparently facilitates forms of action that one would expect enhance peoplesÕ livelihoods.…”

Section: Accessing Defending and Transforming: Capitals Capabilitiementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally at the national level, especially strong social capital, in the form of regional and national organizations and their links to government o cials, can be a mechanism through which rural people are able, collectively, to have an in¯uence on the overall rules governing the distribution of public investment of various types, and the defense and use of natural capital (Fox, 1996;Bebbington and Perreault, 1999).…”

Section: Accessing Defending and Transforming: Capitals Capabilitiementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the process, these initiatives also build up their social capital assets to the extent that the collaborative relationship built between government and social organization persists and facilitates other forms of collaboration and engagement. In other cases, government agenciesÐor more accurately key, pro-poor individuals inside the agenciesÐhave helped build up civil society organizations, enhancing their capacities to coordinate with, or exercise pressure on, government and other organizations in the pursuit or defense of access (Fox, 1996).…”

Section: Accessing Defending and Transforming: Capitals Capabilitiementioning

confidence: 99%

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Capitals and Capabilities: A Framework for Analyzing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty

1999

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Summary. Ð On the basis of themes emerging in current debates on rural development in Latin America, this paper develops an analytical framework for analyzing rural livelihoods in terms of their sustainability and their implications for rural poverty. The framework argues that our analyses of rural livelihoods need to understand them in terms of: (a) peopleÕs access to ®ve types of capital asset; (b) the ways in which they combine and transform those assets in the building of livelihoods that as far as possible meet their material and their experiential needs; (c) the ways in which people are able to expand their asset bases through engaging with other actors through relationships governed by the logics of the state, market and civil society; and (d) the ways in which they are able to deploy and enhance their capabilities both to make living more meaningful and to change the dominant rules and relationships governing the ways in which resources are controlled, distributed and transformed in society. Particular attention is paid to the importance of social capital as an asset through which people are able to widen their access to resources and other actors. Ó

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Section: Accessing Defending and Transforming: Capitals Capabilitiementioning

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Section: Accessing Defending and Transforming: Capitals Capabilitiementioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Affective and emotional relations between family and neighbours are probably not the types of social relations that can or should be developed through policy. However, bridging social capital may be 'constructible' since it constitutes social links that are facilitated by formalized or institutional arrangements (Bebbington, 2000, Krishna, 2004, Putzel, 1997, Fox, 1996, Evans, 1996.…”

Section: Micro Level Bridging Social Capital: the Effect Of Vertical mentioning

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“…This may occur when vertical bridging relations cause dependency through top-down, non-participatory interventions (Abom, 2004, Fox, 1996. Echoing this argument, it has been found that community participation in CBHI is essential to scheme sustainability , Franco, 2004.…”

Section: Vertical Bridging Linkages: the Role Of Ngos In Capacity Buimentioning

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A Conceptual Framework for Community-Based Health Insurance in Low-Income Countries: Social Capital and Economic Development

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Mossialos

2008

World Development

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Current thinking in major international development agencies construes community-based health insurance (CBHI) as a transitional mechanism to achieving universal coverage for health care in lowincome countries. The policy link between CBHI and universal coverage is implicitly determined by the historical experience of mutual health insurance in countries such as Germany and Japan in the 19 th century, where the socioeconomic context was dramatically different to that of today's much less successful schemes. This paper argues that the economic and health system frameworks employed in the analysis of CBHI have not taken into account context-dependent considerations such as goals, values and power. It is proposed that a critical engagement with social capital theories could contribute to our understanding of why CBHI schemes do not appear on course to develop according to the 19 th century precedent, achieving significant levels of population coverage in a sustainable way.A framework of social capital and economic development is used to organize and interpret existing evidence and information on CBHI. This process suggests that solidarity, trust, extra-community networks, vertical civil society links and state-society relations at the local level affect the possibility of success of CBHI. To this extent, it may be possible to talk of "social determinants of CBHI". In order to align themselves to local community goals and values, CBHI schemes may need to actively foster certain types of vertical and horizontal bridging relations which could result in the evolution of structures and operations quite different to those proposed by current models of CBHI.

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POLICY ARENA: ‘Missing link’ or analytically missing?: The concept of social capital. Edited by John Harriss. An introductory bibliographic essay

1997

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This paper oers a substantial review of the ways in which the concept of social capital' has been used in the recent theoretical and policy literatures. Attention is drawn to the signi®cant dierence between the way in which the term has been de®ned by its two major proponents, James Coleman and Robert Putnam. Putnam's usage, which is the one which has been taken over in development policy thinking by some in the World Bank, is subjected to substantial critique. It is concluded that policy arguments which pose civil society against the state, or which rest on the view that rich endowment in`social capital' is a precondition for`good government', are almost certainly misconceived. #

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How does civil society thicken? the political construction of social capital in rural Mexico

Cited by 437 publications

References 13 publications

Capitals and Capabilities: A Framework for Analyzing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty

Capitals and Capabilities: A Framework for Analyzing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty

A Conceptual Framework for Community-Based Health Insurance in Low-Income Countries: Social Capital and Economic Development

POLICY ARENA: ‘Missing link’ or analytically missing?: The concept of social capital. Edited by John Harriss. An introductory bibliographic essay

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