Social capital and development studies III:social capital and the state (seen from Peru)
Abstract
Progress in Development Studies 8, 3 (2008) pp. 27179 Progress report Social capital and development studies III: social capital and the state (seen from Peru) Anthony Bebbington Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK I Introduction Let me open this third article on social capital with two caveats. First, the general title that I have given to this article is certainly too expansive to receive a satisfying treatment in just a few pages. This explains the parenthetical addition at the end on which more below. Second, even though this is the final article in this sequence, in no way does it attempt to bring any closure. The spirit, instead, is to be tentative and propositional, and to open up questions that might merit more research, reflection and engagement. Initially, I had expected this article to be more methodological in tone as opposed to conceptual or political; this was to be a discussion of the potential that the language of social capital had in opening up crossdisciplinary discussion (Bebbington, 2004: 343). Two experiences prompted the decision to change focus and consider the possible contributions of social capital thinking to understanding the state. The first was