Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital
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Abstract
After briefly explaining why social capital (civil society) is important to democracy, Putnam devotes the bulk of this chapter to demonstrating social capital’s decline in the United States across the last quarter century. (See Putnam 1995 for a similar but more detailed argument.) While he acknowledges that the significance of a few countertrends is difficult to assess without further study, Putnam concludes that crucial factors such as social trust are eroding rapidly in the United States. He offers some possible explanations for this erosion and concludes by outlining the work needed to consider these possibilities more fully.
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The record
- Venue
- Culture and Politics
- Topic
- Social Capital and Networks
- Field
- Social Sciences
- Canadian institutions
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- Funders
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- Keywords
- Social capitalArgument (complex analysis)Quarter (Canadian coin)DemocracyCapital (architecture)Positive economicsPolitical economyPolitical scienceSocial reproductionDevelopment economicsSociologyNeoclassical economicsSocial scienceEconomicsHistoryLawPolitics
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