caa a22 4500 388036532 CHVBK 20180307125006.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1161145 doi S0001972000046970 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1161145 Researching social capital in Africa [Elektronische Daten] Scholars in several disciplines have recently turned their attention to the effects of community characteristics on attitudes and behaviour. ‘Social capital' figures prominently in this new literature. This article explores the influence of trust, optimism, voluntarism and other standard components of social capital on political participation and institutional performance in two African contexts: Uganda and Botswana. It concludes that generalised trust and participation in social clubs help shape decisions to participate in formal politics, although their influence is dwarfed by gender and urbanisation. However, social capital bears no clear relation to institutional performance, as measured by residents' levels of satisfaction with government services. Copyright © International African Institute 1998 Widner Jennifer Mundt Alexander Africa Cambridge University Press 68/1(1998-01), 1-24 0001-9720 68:1<1 1998 68 AFR https://doi.org/10.2307/1161145 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1161145 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Widner Jennifer NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mundt Alexander NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Africa Cambridge University Press 68/1(1998-01), 1-24 0001-9720 68:1<1 1998 68 AFR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 077183665 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge