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Bowling Alone: a review essay
Steven N. Durlauf
Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Vol. 47 (2002) 259–273
This paper is a critical reviewof Robert Putnam’s influential analysis of social capital in America:
Bowling Alone. The reviewargues thatBowling Alone reflectsmany of the strengths and weaknesses
of the social capital literature. Like this literature, Bowling Alone describes a remarkable number
of facts concerning community life in America. At the same time, the book suffers from many of
the conceptual problems and empirical weaknesses that have plagued the social capital literature. I
conclude that Bowling Alone does not succeed in establishing the importance of social capital in
understanding various socioeconomic phenomena it purports to explain.
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