本課程旨在幫助學(xué)生獲得完整的認(rèn)知基礎(chǔ)，了解關(guān)于社會(huì)資本這個(gè)社會(huì)科學(xué)概念是如何發(fā)展出來(lái)的以及它的研究如何在社會(huì)科學(xué)及其應(yīng)用領(lǐng)域里呈幾何式增長(zhǎng)的。課程的重點(diǎn)在于此術(shù)語(yǔ)在那些方面被用于解釋治理成效（以進(jìn)步性公共政策的采納和績(jī)效的跨轄區(qū)差異為主）以及它在當(dāng)前中國(guó)公共政策和公共管理研究中的應(yīng)用現(xiàn)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(xué)政治、哲學(xué)和公共事務(wù)學(xué)院的榮譽(yù)教授，1971年獲得加州大學(xué)洛杉磯分校的政治學(xué)博士學(xué)位。洛夫里奇教授是刑事司法、公共管理和政治學(xué)領(lǐng)域的知名學(xué)者，出版十?dāng)?shù)部專著和200多篇學(xué)術(shù)期刊論文（發(fā)表在包括《美國(guó)公共管理評(píng)論》等知名期刊之上）。他在1990-2000年間擔(dān)任《公共人事管理評(píng)論》的主編并在包括“美國(guó)政治學(xué)會(huì)”（APSA）在內(nèi)的眾多專業(yè)學(xué)術(shù)機(jī)構(gòu)的執(zhí)行委員會(huì)中擔(dān)任要?jiǎng)?wù)。他獲得了很多來(lái)自聯(lián)邦和州的資助和委托項(xiàng)目并擔(dān)任美國(guó)自然科學(xué)基金會(huì)和美國(guó)地質(zhì)勘探局的項(xiàng)目評(píng)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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