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Bowling Alone
The data-driven account of America's collapse in social capital — and why it matters for democracy and health.
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Robert Putnam
Harvard political scientist whose Bowling Alone (2000) used four decades of survey data to show American civic participation collapsing across every metric — clubs, unions, dinner parties, voting. Named the problem that subsequent platform-era discourse keeps re-discovering.
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