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Robert D. Putnam

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January 01, 1941 in Port Clinton, Ohio, The United States

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Robert David Putnam is a political scientist and professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also visiting professor and director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester (UK). Putnam developed the influential two-level game theory that assumes international agreements will only be successfully brokered if they also result in domestic benefits. His most famous (and controversial) work, Bowling Alone, argues that the United States has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social, associational, and political life (social capital) since the 1960s, with serious negative consequences.

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Average rating: 3.67 · 2,055 ratings · 343 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community 3.66 avg rating — 1,597 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam, David E. Campbell 3.80 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy 3.72 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Better Together: Restoring the American Community by Robert D. Putnam, Lewis Feldstein, Donald J. Cohen (With) 3.62 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics by Robert D. Putnam, Harold K. Jacobson (Editor), Peter B. Evans (Editor) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beliefs of Politicians 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1973	My rating:
	Capitale Sociale E Individualismo: Crisi E Rinascita Della Cultura Civica In America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam, David E. Campbell, David E Campbell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Hanging Together: Cooperation and Conflict in the the Seven-Power Summits, Revised and Enlarged Edition by Robert D. Putnam, Nicholas Bayne 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.”
― Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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