چکیده:
Social capital is one of the most important subjects in development economies. It has a crucial role in development process in developing countries. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study about the importance of government size on social capital, therefore the purpose of this paper is considering the relationship between government size and social capital in 109 developing countries during the 2008-2014 period. To do so, we have used a panel data method based on the model of Knack and Keefer (1997). Estimated Results of a fixed effect panel model indicate that there is a non-linear relationship between government size and social capital. When the government size is small (the government size is less than 26.17%), increasing government size has a significant positive impact on social capital, but when the government size is large (the government size is larger than 26.17%), government size has a significant negative impact on social capital. before this threshold level of government size, because of preparing safe environment, social and economic institutions, ensuring property rights, providing public goods and services, social securities, building schools and universities, etc., expanding government size lead to promote social capital. But after this threshold level, because of inefficient expenditure, corruption, crowding out private investments in social capital, expanding government size has the negative impact on social capital.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Therefore, the creation of social capital has been widely considered as a solution for social problems such as poverty, crime, economic underdevelopment and inefficient government, in both academic and policymaking communities (Boix & Posner, 1998).
In low government size regimes, due to preparing safe environment as well as social and economic institutions, ensuring property rights, providing public services as well as social security, building schools and universities, etc.
The Model Specification The present research using panel data, estimates the non-linear relationship between government size and social capital for selected developing countries as follows; SPit = d 1 + d 12GS it + d 13GS 2 +dX i + eit (1) Where / is social capital index, / is government size or the share of consumption expenditure in GDP, / is the vector of control variables.
Before this threshold level of government size, because of preparing safe environment and social and economic institutions, ensuring property rights, providing public services as well as social security, building schools and universities, etc.
Some researchers discussed about the relationship between quality of government and social capital like Miruka & Omenya (2009), Andrews (2011), Ponzetto (2012) and Vilhelmsdóttir, et.
We used panel data method for considering the impact of government size on social capital in 109 developing countries during 2008-2014.
Based on the empirical results, we suggest policy makers in developing countries to concern about their expanding economic policies that lead to big government size because a large government size might decrease social capital in the society."