Civic association density never recovered from its 1990s nadir

Evidence

Meanwhile, after a decade of political turmoil, levels of civic membership and associational density that characterized the era of mass politics have barely recovered from the historic nadirs to which they dropped in the 1990s. For fledgling social movements operating in debt-driven service economies, the solidarities of the online world remain an insufficient replacement for those of the local community and workplace. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 16

Categorization

• XREF: This is the empirical anchor of the Putnam-from-the-Left appropriation — the reader wants to study exactly how Jäger deploys this data.