Building Social Capital: Civic Attitudes and Behavior of Public Servants
比较公务员与其他公民在社会信任、利他主义、平等、宽容、人道主义和公民参与等社会资本相关态度与行为上的差异，发现公务员在公民参与方面显著更活跃，可能是社会资本建设的催化剂。
This study compares public servants and other citizens with regard to several important civic attitudes and behaviors that are closely related to social capital. These attributes include social trust, social altruism, equality, tolerance, humanitarianism, and civic participation. The first five attributes provide soft evidence of social capital, but the last attribute—civic participation—is hard behavioral evidence. Finally, a rigorous test is applied: a multivariate model estimates the strength of public employment as a predictor of civic participation while it holds other theoretically important variables constant. The results show that public employment is a substantively important and highly significant predictor of civic participation. Overall, public servants are far more active in civic affairs than are other citizens, and they appear to be catalysts for the building of social capital in society at large.