Bowling alone by robert d putnam6/21/2023 New civic organizations, such as many environmental groups, are professionally and centrally run and therefore do not enrich social capital. Active involvement in face-to-face civic organizations, such as the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), has substantially slipped in this period as well. As a result, political institutions are hollowed out, and public discourse is less civil. He begins with the decline in political participation, noting that not only voting but all forms of political participation have decreased. Because of this decline, the US has a dwindling stock of social capital, which is essential to the health of American society and politics. Drawing upon organizational records, survey reports, time diaries, and consumer spending, Putnam details a comprehensive decline in American communal life in the last third of the 20th century.
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