{
  "id": 166,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06080v1",
  "title": "From Blueprint to Reality: Modeling and Applying Putnam's Social Capital Theory with LLM-based Multi-agent Simulations",
  "summary": "Putnam's Social Capital Theory is a foundational framework for collective action and community prosperity. However, traditional empirical methods face practical limits on control and replication. Meanwhile, LLM-based social simulations are typically behavior-driven and lack theory-aligned environments for modeling Putnam's core propositions. To address these gaps, we introduce SocaSim, an LLM-based multi-agent simulation framework to study Putnam's Social Capital Theory from theoretical blueprin",
  "authors": "Shiyi Ling, Zhi Zheng, Hui Zheng, Wenjun Xue, Feng Ye, Tong Xu",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-07T09:49:23.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:19.970Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/166",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06080v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}