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...topic revolved around the influential book Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital by Robert D. Putnam, Dillon professor of international affairs and director of the Center for International Affairs...
...Bowling Alone, Putnam argues that the civic involvement of American citizens has decreased markedly over the last few decades...
...Putnam joined a number of academics from the magazines The American Prospect and the Economic Policy Review, as well as professors from Boston College and the University of Maryland on the panel...
...Americans' connections with their community...have [diminished] over the last 30 years," Putnam said...
...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...