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Recently, politicians, social theorists, citizens, and pundits alike have been looking to voluntary associations to heal many social ills. One of the many goods we imagine they provide is to “make democracy work” (Putnam, 1993), partly by broadening citizens’ political and social horizons. But do they broaden citizens’ horizons? How do they? Why don’t they, when they don’t?
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Eliasoph, N. (2003). Cultivating Apathy in Voluntary Associations. In: Dekker, P., Halman, L. (eds) The Values of Volunteering. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0145-9_12
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