Social capital has become a highly successful concept in social science despite widely perceived shortcomings in conceptualization and operationalization. The latter is frequently performed as a ...

The purpose of this article is to show how the ecological fallacy - a problem discovered by W. S. Robinson (1950) over five decades ago - is present to this day in a surprising number of commonly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper has two interrelated purposes. First, we examine the usefulness of a statistical technique derived from a causal model, i.e., path ...

The city of Springfield has a pension problem; there is no question about it. It is the same problem cities across our state and nation also endure. The problem was not created overnight, and it will ...