Abstract
In 2000 Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam attracted widespread national attention for his provocative book, Bowling Alone. 1 His concluding observation was that by the late twentieth century there were alarming signs that Americans had ceased to be a nation of joiners. Membership in the kinds of voluntary associations that had characterized US civic and public life for centuries, such as those described in chapter 2, summarizing Alexis de Tocqueville’s accounts of American society in 1831, appeared to be declining. 2 If this were so, it would have, of course serious, consequences for philanthropy that customarily has depended on public-minded voluntary collaborations of groups of private citizens.
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Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000).
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Thelin, J.R., Trollinger, R.W. (2014). Colleges and Their Constituencies: New Directions in Philanthropy. In: Philanthropy and American Higher Education. Philanthropy and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318589_8
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