When The Today Show gave Pauline Hanson a megaphone, it diminished Australia's social capital
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
AAP/Mick TsikasIn the early 1990s, Harvard University political scientist Robert Putnam embarked on a series of studies that were to make his name synonymous with the concept of what is now widely referred to as social capital.
He has written a few bestsellers about it, including Bowling Alone and Better Together.
The idea, basically, is that...