Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America

PS: Political Science & Politics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 664-683

  Putnam, Robert D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84971108567     PISSN: 10490965     EISSN: 15375935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/420517     Document Type: Article

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