Word: civics
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...Professor of International Peace, Putnam has served as the chair of the Government Department, the director of the Center for International Affairs, and dean of the Kennedy School. Known to undergraduates as the professor of Junior Government Tutorial 90qa, "Community in America," Putnam studies social capital in relation to civic engagement. In his 1995 article and upcoming book, Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America and What to Do About It, Putnam employs bowling as a metaphor for a larger phenomenon in America. He charts the movement from group-oriented civic engagement, as manifested in bowling leagues, to isolating, individual activities...
Segat, Simmons, Turkel and Walser were endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a progressive Cambridge political organization...
After that loss, Triantafillou resigned from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), Cambridge's liberal political party and a longtime endorser of her campaign...
...There's the surprise of the election right there," said Down of Decker's total. "She got the Independent vote because of her upbringing and background and the [Cambridge Civic Association] vote because of her work with [state representative Alice K. Wolf...
...these voters had to be pushed to discuss rent control, though. They said they were voting because they felt it was a civic duty, and not necessarily because they were motivated by a particular issue...