Government policy can deliberately foster social-capital formation.
Evidence
On the other hand, such past initiatives as the county agricultural-agent system, community colleges, and tax deductions for charitable contributions illustrate that government can encourage social-capital formation. Even a recent proposal in San Luis Obispo, California, to require that all new houses have front porches illustrates the power of government to influence where and how networks are formed. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone, 79
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Directly supports the ‘Grafting & Growth’ tree-as-infrastructure piece: the front-porch mandate is a literal architectural tool for engineering social adjacency, like the living root bridges engineered for crossing.
- SHARE: The San Luis Obispo front-porch mandate is exactly the kind of niche fact to send to anyone interested in urbanism or housing policy as social engineering.
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 79
- XREF: connects to: Big government does not undermine social capital and may foster it — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 972; Social capital grows from participation, not prior endowment alone. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 49; Republican governance presupposes social capital that citizens must actively build — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 1 (+2 more)
Related
- Big government does not undermine social capital and may foster it (similarity 0.79)
- Social capital grows from participation, not prior endowment alone. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Big government does not undermine social capital and may foster it
#corroborates(0.85) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 972 - Republican governance presupposes social capital that citizens must actively build
#corroborates(0.80) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 1 - Social capital grows from participation, not prior endowment alone.
#expands(0.75) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 49 - Stable open government with countervailing institutions is needed to stimulate trustworthiness
#expands(0.70) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 519