Word: civics
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...result, Putnam says, is a country which has lost faith in its civic institutions and has become increasingly disaffected with its national leaders...
Some of the nation's leading political scientists and sociologists discussed the declining civic involvement in the United States last night at a Kennedy School of Government panel...
...Bowling Alone, Putnam argues that the civic involvement of American citizens has decreased markedly over the last few decades...
Putnam cited the declining membership in civic organizations like the PTA, the YMCA and the Kiwanis Club as evidence that citizens are not connecting with each other on the level which they did in the past...
...little too smart for their own good. In this case he's Martin Vail, a media-mad defense attorney in Chicago, who takes on--mostly for publicity--the case of a young man accused of murdering the city's beloved Catholic archbishop. Before he's through, Martin uncovers civic corruption, some hanky-panky with the alter boys, a double-twist ending and the idealism hidden deep in his heart. He also gets to banter winningly with the prosecuting attorney (Laura Linney), his once and (almost certainly) future lover...