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Bowling with Veterans: The Impact of Military Service on Subsequent Civic Engagement
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2016
unpublished
From Tocqueville to Putnam, scholars have argued that civic engagement is not only the key to a healthy democracy, but also that civic engagement begats more civic engagement. In this paper I examine the effects of military service on subsequent civic engagement. The key finding is that men who served in the US military prior to the advent of All-Volunteer Force (AVF) in 1973 are actually less civically engaged than those who never served. Military service has no significant effect on civic
doi:10.31235/osf.io/wg4md
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