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Health and Social Capital

Long before the term became fashionable, people living in one-party states with non-market economies had become social capitalists, relying on networks of friends and friends of friends to get things done. Every Barometer questionnaire from spring, 1991 onwards has collected multiple indicators of networks that people use to get by amidst the upheavals of transition.

Instead of relying on inadequate second-hand indicators of social capital, the CSPP has developed a special-purpose questionnaire for measuring forms of social capital, systematically collecting data on whether and how networks are used to produce house repairs, income security, employment, safety on the streets, food and other goods and services, especially health. Because social capital networking often does not involve money, it is particularly important in developing countries. See the following Studies in Public Policy (SPP).

Studies in Public Policy on Social Capital and Health

SPP 503 AUTHORITARIAN MANAGEMENT OF CYBER-SOCIETY IN POST-SOVIET STATES. INTERNET PENETRATION, POLICIES AND NEW PROTEST MOVEMENTS. Jaclyn Kerr.

SPP 501 CHINESE STRATEGIES FOR GETTING HEALTH CARE: GUANXI AND ITS ALTERNATIVES. Neil Munro.

SPP 493 THE ROOTS OF CORRUPTION: MASS EDUCATION, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND STATE BUILDING. Eric M. Uslaner and Bo Rothstein.

SPP 469 WAYS OF GETTING A GOVERNMENT PERMIT IN CHINA: STRATEGIES AND THEIR DETERMINANTS. Neil Munro.

SPP 454 SECURING THE HEALTH OF OLDER PEOPLE: AN EQUILIBRIUM MODEL. Richard Rose.

SPP 448 MULTIPLE RESOURCES AND MULTIPLE NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE. A COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN ANALYSIS. Richard Rose.

SPP 434 STRESSES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF POST-COMMUNIST TRANSFORMATION: THE IMPACT ON HEALTH. Richard Rose and Martin Bobak.

SPP 433 WHAT MAKES A GOOD CITIZEN? ATTITUDES TOWARDS CIVIC VIRTUE IN EUROPE AND HOW SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IMPACT UPON THEM. Florian Pichler and Claire Wallace.

SPP 425 A PENSION IS NOT A PERSON: THE PORTFOLIO OF RESOURCES OF OLDER PEOPLE. Richard Rose.

SPP 413 INTERNET DIFFUSION IN RUSSIA: A MODEL OF A LAGGARD CATCHING UP. Richard Rose.

SPP 410 FAIR TREATMENT IN A DIVIDED SOCIETY: A BOTTOM UP ASSESSMENT OF BUREAUCRATIC ENCOUNTERS IN LATVIA. David J Galbreath and Richard Rose.

SPP 408 GOING PUBLIC WITH PRIVATE OPINIONS: ARE POST-COMMUNIST CITIZENS AFRAID TO SAY WHAT THEY THINK? Richard Rose.

SPP 388 NEW RUSSIA BAROMETER XIII: PUTIN’S RE-ELECTION. Richard Rose.

SPP 386 POLITICAL TRUST, TURNOUT AND GOVERNANCE CAPITAL. Richard Rose.

SPP 380 HEALTH, MONEY AND WELLBEING: SUBJECTIVE RESPONSES TO POST-SOVIET TRANSFORMATION. Richard Rose.

SPP 374 WHAT ARE THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TRUST? A RUSSIAN STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL. William Mishler and Richard Rose.

SPP 371 TWO FACES OF POST-COMMUNIST CHANGE: THE INTERNET AND INSECURITY. Richard Rose.

SPP 362 SOCIAL SHOCKS, SOCIAL CONFIDENCE AND HEALTH. Richard Rose.

SPP 358 THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON HEALTH. Richard Rose.

SPP 348 DETERMINANTS OF SMOKING AND HEALTH IN BELARUS AND UKRAINE. Anna B C Gilmore, Martin McKee, Richard Rose and Maria Telishevska.

SPP 337 SMOKING AND DRINKING IN RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND BELARUS. Martin McKee and Richard Rose.

SPP 329 HOW MUCH DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL ADD TO INDIVIDUAL HEALTH? A SURVEY STUDY OF RUSSIANS. Richard Rose.

SPP 325 FREE NOT TO PARTICIPATE: THE WEAKNESS OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE. Marc Morjé Howard.

SPP 324 MODERN, PRE-MODERN AND ANTI-MODERN SOCIAL CAPITAL IN RUSSIA. Richard Rose.

SPP 318 WHAT DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL ADD TO INDIVIDUAL WELFARE? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RUSSIA. Richard Rose.

SPP 312 EVALUATING LONG AND SHORT-TERM TRANSFORMATION IN CENTRAL EUROPE. Richard Rose.

SPP 310 TRUST IN UNTRUSTWORTHY INSTITUTIONS: CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE. William Mishler and Richard Rose.

SPP 306 NEW DEMOCRACIES BAROMETER V, 1998. A 12-NATION STUDY. Richard Rose and Christian Haerpfer..

SPP 304 GETTING THINGS DONE IN AN ANTI-MODERN SOCIETY: SOCIAL CAPITAL NETWORKS IN RUSSIA. Richard Rose.

SPP 303 GETTING THINGS DONE WITH SOCIAL CAPITAL: NEW RUSSIA BAROMETER VII. Richard Rose.

SPP 302 QUALITIES OF INCOMPLETE DEMOCRACIES. RUSSIA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND KOREA COMPARED. Richard Rose and Doh C Shin.

SPP 301 SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN PROCESSES OF DEMOCRATIZATION. James L Gibson.

SPP 299 SURVEYING THE HEALTH OF RUSSIANS. M Bobak, L Chenet, C Hertzman, D Leon, M McKee, M Marmot, H Pikhart, R Rose and V Shkolnikov.

SPP 285 PRIMORDIAL AND MINORITY PRESSURES IN LITHUANIA. Terry D Clark.

SPP 278 GETTING REAL: SOCIAL CAPITAL IN POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES. Richard Rose, William Mishler and Christian Haerpfer.

SPP 263 SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ADAPTATION TO SOCIAL CHANGE IN RUSSIAN VILLAGES. David J. O'Brien, Valeri V. Patsiorkovski, Larry Dershem and Oksana Lylova.

SPP 252 TRUST, DISTRUST AND SKEPTICISM ABOUT INSTITUTIONS OF CIVIL SOCIETY. William Mishler and Richard Rose.

SPP 219 CONSENSUS OR DISSENSUS IN WELFARE VALUES IN POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES? Richard Rose and Toni Makkai.

SPP 209 WHO GROWS FOOD IN EASTERN EUROPE? Richard Rose and Evgeny Tikhomirov.

SPP 207 FROM THE SECOND ECONOMY TO THE INFORMAL ECONOMY. Endre Sik.

SPP 206 DIVISIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION: Household Portfolios in Russia, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Richard Rose.


Economy and Welfare

Official statistics only report data from the official economy and employers do not know what their employees are doing when they are not at their place of formal employment. Barometer surveys provide a much fuller picture of individual activities in the unofficial shadow economy and in household production.

When studies of welfare focus narrowly on public expenditure or averages for a country as a whole, they obscure the benefits that people can derive from the market or from the non-monetized production of welfare in the household and through social capital networks. Barometer surveys take a multi-dimensional approach to welfare and have innovative measures of intermittent poverty and destitution, and also of prosperity.

Studies in Public Policy on the Economy and Welfare

SPP 497. TESTING IF CORRUPTION IS AN EFFICIENT GREASE: MICRO-LEVEL DATA FROM BANGALORE, INDIA. Srikar Gullapalli.

SPP 494. PAYING BRIBES TO GET PUBLIC SERVICES: A GLOBAL GUIDE TO CONCEPTS AND SURVEY MEASURES. Richard Rose and Caryn Peiffer.

SPP 476. MICRO-ECONOMIC RESPONSES TO A MACRO-ECONOMIC CRISIS: A Pan-European Perspective. Richard Rose.

SPP 462. RUSSIANS IN ECONOMIC CRISIS: NEW RUSSIA BAROMETER XVIII. Richard Rose.

SPP 454. SECURING THE HEALTH OF OLDER PEOPLE: AN EQUILIBRIUM MODEL. Richard Rose.

SPP 449. THE EMERGENCE OF PENSIONERS' PARTIES IN EASTERN EUROPE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Sean Hanley.

SPP 448 MULTIPLE RESOURCES AND MULTIPLE NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE. A COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN ANALYSIS. Richard Rose.

SPP 432 EXPLAINING THE GAP BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTION OF CORRUPTION. Richard Rose and William Mishler.

SPP 425 A PENSION IS NOT A PERSON: THE PORTFOLIO OF RESOURCES OF OLDER PEOPLE. Richard Rose.

SPP 421 WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION ON SUPPORT FOR MARKET ECONOMIES IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE? Orsolya Lazar, William Mishler and Richard Rose.

SPP 417 TRANSFORMING BUREAUCRACY: CONDITIONAL NORMS AND THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION OF STATISTICS IN RUSSIA. Yoshiko Herrera.

SPP 413 INTERNET DIFFUSION IN RUSSIA: A MODEL OF A LAGGARD CATCHING UP. Richard Rose.

SPP 372 MONITORING GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMY IN TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES: A SURVEY RESEARCH APPROACH. Richard Rose.

SPP 371 TWO FACES OF POST-COMMUNIST CHANGE: THE INTERNET AND INSECURITY. Richard Rose.

SPP 366 WHEN ALL OTHER CONDITIONS ARE NOT EQUAL: THE CONTEXT FOR DRAWING LESSONS. Richard Rose.

SPP 363 MASS ATTITUDES TOWARD FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ECONOMIC REFORM IN KOREA. Bernd Hayo and Doh Chull Shin.

SPP 361 AGENTS OF TRANSFORMATION: THE ROLE OF THE WEST IN POST-COMMUNIST CENTRAL BANK DEVELOPMENT. Juliet Johnson.

SPP 338 NEW BALTIC BAROMETER IV: A SURVEY STUDY. Richard Rose. .

SPP 321 PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR MARKET REFORMS IN EASTERN EUROPE. Bernd Hayo.

SPP 318 WHAT DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL ADD TO INDIVIDUAL WELFARE? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RUSSIA. Richard Rose.

SPP 311 RESPONDING TO ECONOMIC CRISIS: THE 1998 NEW KOREA BAROMETER SURVEY. Doh C. Shin and Richard Rose.

SPP 304 GETTING THINGS DONE IN AN ANTI-MODERN SOCIETY: SOCIAL CAPITAL NETWORKS IN RUSSIA. Richard Rose.

SPP 282 WHAT IS THE DEMAND FOR PRICE-STABILITY IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES? Richard Rose, CSPP.

SPP 278 GETTING REAL: SOCIAL CAPITAL IN POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES. Richard Rose, Christian Haepfer and William Mishler.

SPP 277 EVALUATING WORKPLACE BENEFITS: THE VIEWS OF RUSSIAN EMPLOYEES. Richard Rose.

SPP 269 OWNERSHIP TRANSFORMATION, ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES IN RUSSIA. John S Earle and Richard Rose.

SPP 266 THE RELATION OF INCOME AND CONSUMER DURABLES IN RUSSIA. Richard Rose and Marina Krassilnikova.

SPP 264 CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF PRIVATIZATION: BEHAVIOUR AND ATTITUDES OF RUSSIAN WORKERS. John S Earle and Richard Rose.

SPP 263 SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ADAPTATION TO SOCIAL CHANGE IN RUSSIAN VILLAGES. David J O'Brien, Valeri V Patsiorkovski, Larry Dershem and Oksana Lylova.

SPP 260 NEW RUSSIA BAROMETER V: BETWEEN TWO ELECTIONS. Richard Rose and VCIOM (All-Russian Centre for Public Opinion).

SPP 258 COMPARING WORKERS IN RUSSIAN ENTERPRISES. Richard Rose.

SPP 254 MICRO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF BALTIC NATIONALITIES. Richard Rose.

SPP 252 TRUST, DISTRUST AND SKEPTICISM ABOUT INSTITUTIONS OF CIVIL SOCIETY. William Mishler and Richard Rose.

SPP 250 NEW RUSSIA BAROMETER IV. (1995) Richard Rose and VCIOM (All-Russian Centre for Public Opinion).

SPP 245 POPULAR RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN PRIVATIZATION: SURVEYS IN ENTERPRISES. Igor Gurkov.

SPP 240 ADAPTATION, RESILIENCE AND DESTITUTION: ALTERNATIVES IN UKRAINE. Richard Rose.

SPP 239 PENSIONERS, GENDER AND POVERTY IN THE BALTIC STATES. Richard Rose.

SPP 227 GETTING BY WITHOUT GOVERNMENT: EVERYDAY LIFE IN A STRESSFUL RUSSIA. Richard Rose.

SPP 225 FRINGE BENEFITS IN RUSSIAN ENTERPRISES. Richard Rose.

SPP 224 THE SPREAD OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INCLINATIONS IN HUNGARY. Gyorgy Lengyel and Istvan Janos Toth.

SPP 219 CONSENSUS OR DISSENSUS IN WELFARE VALUES IN POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES? Richard Rose and Toni Makkai.

SPP 216 HOW RUSSIANS ARE COPING WITH TRANSITION: New Russia Barometer II. (1993) Richard Rose, Irina Boeva and Viacheslav Shironin.

SPP 215 IS MONEY THE MEASURE OF WELFARE IN RUSSIA? Richard Rose and Ian McAllister.

SPP 211 EUROPEANIZATION THROUGH PRIVATIZATION AND PLURALIZATION IN HUNGARY. Attila Agh.

SPP 209 WHO GROWS FOOD IN EASTERN EUROPE? Richard Rose and Evgeny Tikhomirov.

SPP 208 MAKING PROGRESS AND CATCHING UP: A Time-Space Analysis of Social Welfare Across Europe. Richard Rose.

SPP 207 FROM THE SECOND ECONOMY TO THE INFORMAL ECONOMY. Endre Sik.

SPP 206 DIVISIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION: Household Portfolios in Russia, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Richard Rose.

SPP 205 RUSSIANS BETWEEN STATE AND MARKET: The Generations Compared. (1992) Irina Boeva and Viacheslav Shironin.

SPP 204 NEW DEMOCRACIES BETWEEN STATE AND MARKET: A Baseline Report. Richard Rose and Christian Haerpfer.

SPP 202 WHO NEEDS SOCIAL PROTECTION IN EASTERN EUROPE? A Constrained Empirical Analysis of Romania. Richard Rose.

SPP 201 POLAND: A SURVEY OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR. Ankieta, Poznan.

SPP 200 TOWARD A CIVIL ECONOMY? Richard Rose.

SPP 199 BULGARIA: A SURVEY OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR. NAPOC, Sofia.

SPP 198 CZECHS AND SLOVAKS COMPARED. Results of a Survey of Economic and Political Behaviour. AISA, Prague.

SPP 196 BETWEEN STATE AND MARKET: Key Indicators of Transition in Eastern Europe. Richard Rose.

SPP 193 BRINGING FREEDOM BACK IN. Rethinking Priorities of the Welfare State. Richard Rose.


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