出版社：Servicio central de publicacion. Gobierno Vasco
摘要：This work explores the existent relations between social capital and the
decentralisation process, according to a discussion about the first notion and
adopting its definition as a scheme of informal institutions, that induces
spontaneous co-operative behaviours of the individuals. In the theoretical
debate about the economic effects of the decentralisation, some relevant
benefits are detailed, and also some costs. The main argument of this article is
to assert that the endowment of the social capital can be an element of grand
importance, in order to incline the balance toward the advantages side: In the
case when, a major decentralisation realises effectively to increase the
endowment of the social capital —the fact that can be accredited to a
considerate number of cases, but which is not a universal phenomenon— this
should incorporate important gains, in terms of reducing transaction costs, the
impulse of innovation capacity and the quality of the public politics. An
argument which is contradicted with the data of the Spanish Autonomous
Communities.
