Word: civic
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...Putnam also compared today's lack of participation in civic institutions to a similar situation a century ago, when most of today's institutions were founded...
...Some of the people who get engaged in service for other people will have it in them and become civic inventors and produce for the 21st century what was produced for the 20th century," he says. "It may come out of the experience of volunteering in Dorchester but it will go beyond...
...past, either the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) or the more conservative but still left-of-center Alliance For Change, also known as the Independents, have held a majority on the council. This term, however, the Independents have four councillors (Galluccio, Maher, Sullivan and Toomey), while the CCA only has three (Born, Braude and Davis). Decker and Reeves are both unaffiliated progressives...
...Students have detoured away from their civic duty [of voting]," Stad says. "What has grown a lot is community service...
...some say more can be done to encourage students to vote--that just as political organizations often participate in service events, service groups should emphasize the other side of civic involvement...