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Plenty of trust, not much cooperation: social capital and collective action in early twentieth century eastern Spain

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Social capital—defined here as the norms and networks that create the necessary trust for people to cooperate to solve collective-action problems—also has negative effects. They are usually a consequence of "bonding" social capital, but not always, as this article shows from a new perspective. It uses community irrigation institutions, cooperatives, and the citrus industry in eastern Spain to test Robert Putman's thesis on the ability of social capital to generate virtuous equilibria. It shows that social capital itself hindered "bridging" cooperation (in some cases, centuries' old) on certain issues from becoming a generalized culture of cooperation.

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  • Samuel Garrido, 2014. "Plenty of trust, not much cooperation: social capital and collective action in early twentieth century eastern Spain," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 18(4), pages 413-432.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ereveh:v:18:y:2014:i:4:p:413-432.
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    1. Ingrid Henriksen & Eoin McLaughlin & Paul Sharp, 2015. "Contracts and cooperation: the relative failure of the Irish dairy industry in the late nineteenth century reconsidered," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 19(4), pages 412-431.
    2. Juan Patricio Molina-Ochoa & Rosa Gallardo-Cobos & Pedro Sánchez-Zamora, 2019. "An Analysis of Irrigation Organizations in Colombia through the Prism of Collective Action," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-19, November.
    3. Samuel Garrido, 2022. "The Fruit of Regulation: Wine, Regulations, Subsidies, Quality and Cooperatives in Franco's Spain and Beyond," Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) 2204, Asociación Española de Historia Económica.
    4. Albert Folch & Jordi Planas, 2019. "Cooperation, Fair Trade, and the Development of Organic Coffee Growing in Chiapas (1980–2015)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-22, January.
    5. Samuel Garrido, 2022. "Buffer stocks, wine quality, and wine cooperatives in Franco’s Spain and beyond," Working Papers 2022/11, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    6. Iñaki Iriarte Goñi & Vicente Pinilla, 2019. "The Development of Modern Agricultural History within Economic History in Spain," Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) 1910, Asociación Española de Historia Económica.
    7. Samuel Garrido, 2018. "Why the first cooperative wineries produced poor quality wine, why they were so scarce and why they were set up: evidence from Spain," Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) 1807, Asociación Española de Historia Económica.
    8. Samuel Garrido, 2021. "Inequality and conflict as drivers of cooperation: the location of wine cooperatives in pre-1936 Spain," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 15(2), pages 443-476, May.
    9. Cynthia Giagnocavo, 2020. "The Development of the Cooperative Movement and Civil Society in Almeria, Spain: Something from Nothing?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(23), pages 1-23, November.
    10. Awe, Olajumoke A. & Woodside, Arch G. & Nerur, Sridhar & Prater, Edmund, 2020. "Capturing heterogeneities in orchestrating resources for accurately forecasting high (separately low) project management performance," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 224(C).

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