CINEFOGO Workshop
Social Capital and Democracy in Europe and the USA
October 27-28, 2006
Organised by Analistas Socio-Políticos Research Center, Madrid, Spain
Venue:Friday, 27 October 2006
Opening of the CINEFOGO Workshop Social Capital and Democracy in Europe and the USA
Víctor Pérez-Díaz (Analistas Socio-Políticos Research Center, Madrid, Spain)
A general presentation
Joaquín Pedro López Novo (Analistas Socio-Políticos Research Center, Madrid, Spain)
Religion, irreligion and democratic governance: the problem of exclusionary secularism
Carlo Ruzza (University of Trento, Italy)
Organized civil society and multi-level governance in the EU
Grzegorz Ekiert (Harvard University, USA)
Tiago Fernandes (European University Institute, Italy / Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Political origins of civil society: Spain and Portugal in comparative perspective
Xavier de Souza Briggs (MIT, USA)
Study of civic capacity at the local level, with pairs of cities in three problem domains--economic restructuring, managing urban growth and development, and investing in people (social protection, human development)
Distributed paper:
Tomas Sirovatka (The School for Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) and Petr Mares (Masaryk University, Czech Republic): Transformation, social capital, social exclusion: Czech case
Saturday, 28 October 2006
Alejandro Portes (Princeton University, USA)
The Two Meanings of Social Capital and its Bearing on the Adaptation of the Immigrant Second Generation
Lars Tragardh (Ersta Skondal University College, Sweden)
Commissions constitute the linchpin of democratic governance in Sweden as the location where agents of the state co-govern with representatives of civil society organizations
Marti Siisiäinen, Raimo Blom, Kaj Ilmonen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
Social capital in Finland: Trust in voluntary and work organizations
Distributed paper:
Lars Hulgard (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Institutional configurations of bonding and bridging social capital