Social Capital and Institutional Constraints

<p></p> <p>This book uses new empirical data to test how social capital works in different societies with diverse political-economic and cultural institutions. Taking a comparative approach this study focuses on data from three very different societies China Taiwan and the United States in order to reveal the international commonalities and disparities in access to and activation of social capital in labor markets. In particular this book tests whether political economic and cultural differences between capitalist and socialist economic systems and between Western and Confucian cultures create different types of individual social networks and usages. </p>