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Competing theoretical models have been proposed to explain the effects of political democracy on such development outcomes as economic growth & socioeconomic equality: democracy as (1) facilitating development, (2) a hindrance to development, & (3) bearing no independent relationship to development outcomes. Each of these theoretical models is explicated, & then evidence provided by the approximately 12 studies for each outcome is evaluated, distinguishing the studies by such design characteristics as sample, period observed, measures used, & form of relationship specified. While it does not produce definitive support for any of the models, this procedure does assist in interpreting the results of past research as well as generating guidelines for future investigations. 9 Tables, 75 References. Adapted from the source document.

Social capital as a policy resource -- Measuring social capital and its consequences -- Both glue and lubricant: Transnational ethnic social capital as a source of Asia-Pacific subregionalism -- Social capital in the Japanese youth labor market: Labor market policy, schools, and norms -- Social capital and labor politics in Japan: Cooperation or cooptation? -- Social capital and power: Entrepreneurial elite and the state in contemporary China -- Trade unions and social capital in transitional communist states: The case of China -- Faith as social capital: Religion and community development in Southern Asia -- Native social capital: The case of Hawaiian sovereignty and Ka Lahui Hawaii -- Indigenous knowledge as intellectual property -- The World Bank and social capital: Lessons from ten rural development projects in the Philippines and Mexico -- Social capital in microfinance: Case studies in the Philippines -- Peasant federations and rural development policies in the Andes -- Social capital formation: The role of NGO rural development programs in Bangladesh -- Beyond community and society: The externalities of social capital building -- About the authors.