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Hilde Coffé and Benny Geys
Measuring the Bridging Nature of
Voluntary Organizations: A Note on the Importance of Association
Size
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Recently, a distinction between cross-cutting (or bridging) and
closed (or bonding) networks has been proposed in the social capital
literature. One approach to empirically operationalize this
distinction builds on connections between voluntary associations
through individuals with multiple memberships. However, simply
counting the number of members’ additional memberships in other
associations, as in previous work, is inappropriate. Indeed, we
illustrate that this is biased towards finding that large
associations are more bonding. We then propose a technique to
alleviate this bias and illustrate that the proposed correction is
crucial to avoid erroneous conclusions in tests of the hypothesis
that membership in bridging or bonding associations is differently
related to individuals’ civic attitudes. |
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