| 来源类型 | Testimony
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| Testimony: On the importance of social capital for public policymaking |
| Ryan Streeter
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| 发表日期 | 2019-04-30
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Chairman Lee, Vice Chair Maloney, Distinguished Members of the Committee, thank you for asking me to testify on the relationship between social capital and opportunity in American public life.
Through several decades of research, we know that social capital positively affects a wide range of things we all desire, such as good work, happy family lives, a good education, safety for our kids, and opportunity for us and others. Yet we do not utilize what we have learned about social capital very effectively in domestic policymaking anymore. I say “anymore” because there was a time when we were better at making communities and social capital central to our policy deliberations.
I will explain what I am referring to in what follows, but first, it is worth highlighting a few important points about social capital from a new survey that my colleagues and I at the American Enterprise Institute have conducted.
Consistent with other research, we found that people who know their neighbors, cooperate with them to solve community problems, and are involved in non-profit and other community organizations are less lonely, happier with the communities in which they live, and happier with their own lives.
The benefits of social capital are especially interesting when we look at how the informal elements of social capital — such talking with and getting together with friends and neighbors — and formal elements — such as volunteering in civic groups — relate to each other. Americans who are both highly civic and highly social typically rate highest on almost any measure we construct or issue we examine.
Read the full testimony here. |
| 主题 | Politics and Public Opinion
; Society and Culture
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| 标签 | Community
; Survey on Community and Society
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/on-the-importance-of-social-capital-for-public-policymaking/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/209898
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