In Search of Social Capital in State-Activist Capitalism: Elite Networks in France and Korea
挑战社会资本理论的核心论点，指出在低信任的统制经济传统下，法国和韩国的精英网络作为一种特殊的社会资本，通过国家行动主义提升了经济协调效率，实现了良好增长与创新。
This paper argues that the absence of high trust social capital has not prevented firms from performing well in economies with the dirigiste tradition. Despite low general trust, France and Korea have recorded sound growth rates and innovation performance, thus contradicting the central argument of social capital theory. Drawing on the dirigiste tradition, we suggest that elite networks of France and Korea are an idiosyncratic form of social capital, nurtured through their institutional arrangements such as low trust, concentrated power relations and state-run elite education. The elite networks enhance the coordination efficiency of economic relations through state activism, constituting an alternative to high trust social capital.