Bowling Alone

Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital is an essay by Robert D. Putnam

Robert Putnam

Robert David Putnam is a political scientist [i] and professor at Harvard University [i] ...

. Putnam expanded it into the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. In Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital Putnam surveys the decline of "social capital" in the United States of America since 1950, which he feels undermines the active civil engagement a strong democracy

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Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital is an essay by Robert D. Putnam

Robert Putnam

Robert David Putnam is a political scientist [i] and professor at Harvard University [i] ...

. Putnam expanded it into the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.
In Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital Putnam surveys the decline of "social capital" in the United States of America since 1950, which he feels undermines the active civil engagement a strong democracy

Democracy

Democracy is a form of government [i] for a nation state, or for an organiz ...

requires from its citizens.