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 Robert Putnam
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy
Biographical Note:
Robert D. Putnam is the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, and Visiting Professor and Director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester (UK). Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the American Political Science Association. He was the 2006 recipient of the Skytte Prize, the most prestigious international award for scholarly achievement in political science.
He has written a dozen books, translated into twenty languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of new forms of social connectedness. His Making Democracy Work was praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber." Both Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone rank among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide in the last half century.
Putnam has worked on these themes with both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, as well as with the Blair Government, the Irish Taoiseach, Libya’s Muammar Gadhafi, and many other political leaders and grassroots activists around the world. He founded the Saguaro Seminar, bringing together leading thinkers and practitioners from across America to develop actionable ideas for civic renewal.
His earlier work included research on political elites, Italian politics, and globalization. Before coming to Harvard in 1979, he taught at the University of Michigan and served on the staff of the National Security Council. He is working on four major empirical projects: (1) the changing role of religion in contemporary America, (2) strategies for civic integration in the context of immigration and ethnic diversity, (3) the effects of workplace practices on family and community life, and (4) growing class disparities among American youth.
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