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

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Robert D. Putnam
Robert D. Putnam*
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Harvard University
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1995 Annual Meeting Highlights
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , December 1995 , pp. 664 - 683
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1995

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