About the workshop

The workshop gathers senior scholars within the area of social capital to discuss in depth differences between EU and US models and to understanding the relationship between social capital and democracy. The workshop counts with papers from the following scholars (provisional):

Speakers from the CINEFOGO Network

• Lars Hulgård (Roskilde University, Denmark): "Institutional configurations of bonding and bridging social capital"
• Víctor Pérez-Díaz and Joaquín Pedro López Novo (Analistas Socio-Políticos, Research Center, Madrid, Spain): "Religion and irreligion in a civil society"
• Carlo Ruzza ((University of Trento, Italy)
• Per Selle (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Marti Siisiäinen, Raimo Blom, Kaj Ilmonen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) : "Social capital in Finland: Trust in voluntary and work organizations"
• Tomás Sirovatká (The School for Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) and Petr Mares (Masaryk University, Czech Republic): "Transformation, social capital, social exclusion: Czech case"
• Lars Trägårdh (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"
• Claire Wallace (The University Court of the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
• Jiri Winkler (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Invited speakers

• Grzegorz Ekiert (Harvard University, USA): "Contentious civil society in Poland: its emergence and impact on democracy"
• Tiago Fernandes (Portugal): "Political origins of civil society: Spain and Portugal in comparative perspective"
• Alejandro Portes (Princeton University, USA): "Human and social capital in the adaptation process of the second generation"
• 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)"

Responsible institution

The workshop is organised by Analistas Socio-Políticos Research Center, directed by Victor Perez-Diaz.