The State, Social Capital and Economic Development：Comparing Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia research

• Main Authors: Shu-Ching Lin, 林淑靜
• Other Authors: Jenn-Jaw Soong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53119877983933525416

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 政治經濟學研究所 === 94 === The origin of this thesis comes from several theoretical and practical reflections. First, for a long time, they overemphasize thoughts of relationship between state and economic development. Next, they overvalue researches of the relationship between civil society and social capital. Finally they neglect researches of the relationship between the state and the social capital. For the aforementioned situations, the thesis attempts to regard the social capital as the intervening variable between the state and the economic development and to show the importance of the state during social capital building process by emphasizing that the state is capable of cultivating social capital during the development process of the social capital. The thesis also indicates that social capital can promote economic development. Based on the above viewpoints, the thesis attempts to establish an integrated analysis framework from the state, social capital and economic development. The analysis framework is applied to case study of Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia. Then, based on the results of the case study, several different development modes are generalized to facilitate comparing and classifying different countries.