本課程旨在幫助學生獲得完整的認知基礎，了解關于社會資本這個社會科學概念是如何發展出來的以及它的研究如何在社會科學及其應用領域里呈幾何式增長的。課程的重點在于此術語在那些方面被用于解釋治理成效（以進步性公共政策的采納和績效的跨轄區差異為主）以及它在當前中國公共政策和公共管理研究中的應用現狀。

This course is designed to help the student acquire a sound grounding in how the social science concept of social capital was developed, and how its use has grown exponentially in all of the social sciences and applied social science fields.  The course focuses on what uses of the term have been made to explain governance outcomes - principally, progressive public policy adoption and cross-jurisdictional differences in performance, and finally how it has been used to date in the study of public policy and public administration in China.

主講老師：尼古拉斯·洛夫里奇（Nicholas P. Lovrich）

尼古拉斯·洛夫里奇是華盛頓州立大學政治、哲學和公共事務學院的榮譽教授，1971年獲得加州大學洛杉磯分校的政治學博士學位。洛夫里奇教授是刑事司法、公共管理和政治學領域的知名學者，出版十數部專著和200多篇學術期刊論文（發表在包括《美國公共管理評論》等知名期刊之上）。他在1990-2000年間擔任《公共人事管理評論》的主編并在包括“美國政治學會”（APSA）在內的眾多專業學術機構的執行委員會中擔任要務。他獲得了很多來自聯邦和州的資助和委托項目并擔任美國自然科學基金會和美國地質勘探局的項目評審。

Nicholas P. Lovrich is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs of Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 1971. Professor Lovrich is a top scholar in criminal justice, public administration and political science and He has published a dozen books as well as over 200 academic papers in esteemed journals including American Review of Public Administration. He served as editor-in chief for Review of Public Personnel Administration (1990-2000) and on the executive councils of many professional associations including American Political Science Review. He received many grants and entrusted projects at both national and state level and acted as reviewer for National Science Foundation and for the U.S. Geological Survey.

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