Social and Spatial Networks, Social Capital, and Leadership Accountability in Rural Development: A Study of Uganda's Agriculture Productivity Enhancement Project

农村发展中的社会和空间网络、社会资本和领导责任：乌干达农业生产力提高项目研究

• 批准号: 0924778
• 负责人: Delia Baldassarri
• 金额: $ 49.51万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924778&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Spatial; Networks; Capital; Leadership

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Development scholars and policy planners regard cooperative producer organizations as a core component of poverty reduction strategies, but little is known about the social dynamics that make some of these organizations more successful than others. This research focuses on the social factors that explain variation in economic performance of such groups, and the consequences of economic development on the quality of life of households and villages. The research team will examine the roles of social and spatial networks, associational capital, and leadership accountability in shaping economic and social outcomes.The research will focus on Uganda's largest rural development project -- the Agriculture Productivity Enhancement Project (APEP) -- which involves over 60,000 farmers and 2,500 village-level organizations. APEP's stated goal is to increase small farmers' productivity and marketing capabilities. Its rate of success varies across villages. It is thought that the variations are related to local leaders' capacities to spread information, elicit trust relationships, and facilitate the emergence of accountability practices. Following a multilevel and multimethod research design, data will be collected at the farmer, village, and parish levels and will include observational data, social networks, and behavioral games, to capture the motivations behind actors' strategic interactions and provide valuable insight on the effect of interpersonal, associational, and spatial (inter-village) networks on economic outcomes.The research contributes to the shift from a suggestive to an empirically grounded understanding of social capital. Also, the theory that underpins the study distinguishes between social capital -- defined as the ability of persons and groups to secure benefits through social networks -- and its source mechanisms (i.e., social norms, trust, reciprocity) and consequences (i.e., innovation adoption, organizational building, economic performance).

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）进行的。制定学者和政策计划者将合作生产者组织视为减贫策略的核心组成部分，但对使这些组织更成功的社会动态知之甚少。这项研究的重点是解释这些群体经济绩效差异的社会因素，以及经济发展对家庭和村庄生活质量的后果。研究团队将研究社会和空间网络，协会资本以及领导责任在塑造经济和社会成果中的作用。该研究将重点介绍乌干达最大的农村发展项目 - 农业生产力增强项目（APEP） - 涉及60,000多个农民和2,500个乡村级别的组织。 APEP既定的目标是提高小农民的生产力和营销能力。它的成功率各不相同。人们认为，这些变化与地方领导人的​​能力有关，以传播信息，引起信任关系并促进问责制实践的出现。遵循多层次和多方法研究设计，将在农民，村庄和教区层面收集数据，并将包括观察数据，社交网络和行为游戏，以捕捉参与者战略互动背后的动机，并提供对人际关系，社会对经济启示的介绍对经济的介绍的有价值的洞察力。 首都。同样，基于该研究的理论区分了社会资本（定义为人和团体通过社交网络获得福利的能力）及其来源机制（即社会规范，信任，互惠）和后果（即创新的采用，组织建设，经济绩效）。