par Gagliolo, Matteo ;Lenaerts, Tom ;Jacobs, Dirk
Référence ECPR General Conference (7: 2013-09-07: Bordeaux, France)
Publication Non publié, 2013-09-07
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : Social capital is naturally embedded in social networks. In his famouswork on the causal relationship between ”bridging” social capital (e.g.,associational life), trust, and civic behavior, Putnam [1993] did not inves-tigate the structural aspect of such networks. Recently, the relationshipbetween associational life and civicness of ethnic minority groups in Eu-rope has been investigated [Fennema and Tillie, 2001; Jacobs et al., 2004;Vermeulen and Berger, 2008], without reaching uniform conclusions. Inthis work, simple structural properties of the network of interlocking di-rectorates among ethnic associations are used as a proxy of the socialcapital of the corresponding minority group. We pursue this line further,arguing that more advanced models may consistently predict differencesamong the studied communities, and look at the structure of such net-works,but also at the dynamics that produced it. Here we present resultswith a stochastic actor-based model, SIENA [Snijders et al., 2010], whichestimates the effect of actor covariates and local structure on networkevolution. We model the dynamics of the full two-mode network amongdirectors and boards of voluntary associations, including the structural ef-fects proposed by [Koskinen and Edling, 2012], and considering the politi-cal orientation of associations as a covariate. Using data from [Vermeulenand Berger, 2008], we compare the evolution of interlocks among Turkishassociations in two European capitals, and explain the noticeable differ-ence in structure by looking at statistically significant differences amongthe estimated effects. In the longer term we intend to relate the dynamicsof these networks to the civic behavior of the corresponding communities.

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