Civic disengagement in contemporary America

Government and Opposition

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 136-152

  Putnam, Robert D ^a  

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EID: 18244395579     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-7053.00059     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Because this essay was originally delivered as a lecture, I forgo extensive citation. However, the lecture drew heavily on the material subsequently published in my Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, London, Simon & Schuster, 2001, and I there provide much fuller documentation of the arguments presented in synthetic form here. I want to thank Kristin Goss for her skilled help in editing my extemporaneous oral remarks into written form. I am also grateful to Sir Nicholas Bayne and Rosalind Jones for their forbearance during the unavoidable delay between my original lecture and the appearance of this written essay, as well as for their exceptional hospitality during my visit to LSE.
2. Robert D. Putnam, 'Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital', Journal of Democracy (Jan. 1995), pp. 65-78.
3. This is a dataset of which social scientists were previously unaware. I learned about it by accident when a graduate student at the University of Minnesota wrote a term paper critical of 'Bowling Alone' that included a footnote saying that there was a dataset that he had learned about from his marketing professor that might be relevant to this. So, I followed up that lead, and the firm that owned the dataset - DDB allowed us to use it for this project.
4. Robert D. Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Nanetti, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993.