This paper examines the roles of physical capital, human capital, and social capital in China's economic growth during the reform period 1981–2010.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33306461
This chapter deals with social capital from a certain perspective, that is, local social capital. However, before the analysis of what it is that characterizes local social capital and how it is being studied, it is necessary to relate to some of the contentious issues of social capital in general – as these are sometimes also reflected in local social capital.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33327709
This article deals with the issue of system development and its determinants on the level of Slovenia in comparison to Central-European countries. In this frame, it presents four major issues related to the level of system development: meritocratic society, social and systemic (institutional) integration, economic and political convergence/compatibility, research methodology and interpretation. It concludes with a series of open and disputable issues observed, especially in the case of Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34608989
This chapter analyses certain aspects of the current state and dynamics of Slovenia's civil society. The chapter provides a historical analysis as well as the analysis of European and World Value Survey data and empirical data from interviews. The analyses return mixed results: on the one hand, the civil sector shows growth and development while on the other deters the civil society from having an overall positive impact on the society as a whole.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10515459
This chapter draws on an ethnographic study, treating egalitarianism and meritocracy as being contested through everyday interactions. By focusing on situated moments of interpretation of the social distribution of rewards and judgments of people in everyday life, it demonstrates that in everyday micro situations the heritage of radical egalitarianism coexists with the discourse of meritocratic worth in a way that each emerges in the midst of the action of the other as a displacement of and a means for reinterpreting the other.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34610525