Why Is Robert D. Putnam Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Robert David Putnam is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. 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 work, Bowling Alone, argues that the United States has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social, associational, and political life since the 1960s, with serious negative consequences. In March 2015, he published a book called Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis that looked at issues of inequality of opportunity in the United States. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Putnam is the third most frequently cited author on college syllabi for political science courses.
Robert D. Putnam's Published Works
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 2500 5000 7500 10000 12500 15000 17500 20000 22500 25000 27500 30000 Published Papers Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community (26206) Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital (11626) Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (11436) Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. (7598) Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games (5881) The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life (4344) Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America (3473) E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty‐first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture (3315) Making Democracy Work (2966) “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” (2063) The social context of well-being. (1959) Democracies in flux : the evolution of social capital in contemporary society (1302) Social Capital: Measurement and Consequences (1233) Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (978) The strange disappearance of civic America (887) Economic Growth and Social Capital in Italy (685) Religion, Social Networks, and Life Satisfaction (653) Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies (649) Una discussione su "American Grace: How religion divides and unites us" (482) The Comparative Study of Political Elites (444) Education and Social Capital (417) Better Together: Restoring the American Community (375) Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (356) Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining And Domestic Politics (312) Democracies In Flux (283) Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics. (268) Increasing socioeconomic disparities in adolescent obesity (258) Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (223) Political Attitudes and the Local Community (218) What makes democracy work (213) Much Ado about Social Capital@@@Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (197) Secular and Liminal: Discovering Heterogeneity among Religious Nones (171) Democracy's Past and Future: Still Bowling Alone? - The Post-9/11 Split (170) Religion, networks, and neighborliness: The impact of religious social networks on civic engagement. (167) Introduction: What's Troubling the Trilateral Democracies? (162) The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 18401940 (158) Elite Transformation in Advanced Industrial Societies (149) The Engagement Gap (140) “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” (136) Hanging Together: Cooperation and Conflict in the Seven-Power Summits (135) Studying Elite Political Culture: The Case of 'Ideology' (129) Commentary: "Health by association": some comments. (122) Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies (120) Using Social Capital to Help Integrate Planning Theory, Research, and Practice: Preface (117) The Beliefs of Politicians: Ideology, Conflict, and Democracy in Britain and Italy. (111) Explaining Institutional Success: The Case of Italian Regional Government (105) Toward Explaining Military Intervention in Latin American Politics (102) Hanging together : the seven-power summits (94) The Political Attitudes of Senior Civil Servants in Western Europe: a Preliminary Report (92) Social Capital and Public Affairs (90) APSA Presidential Address: The Public Role of Political Science (67) Community-Based Social Capital and Educational Performance (67) Firearm prevalence and social capital. (56) Better Together: Report of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America (49) Trouble in the Advanced Democracies? A Quarter Century of Declining Confidence (48) The Decline of Civil Society: How Come? SO What? (48) Civic Disengagement in Contemporary America * (43) The Bonn Summit of 1978: A Case Study in Coordination (40) Dr. Putnam's Social Lubricant@@@Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (35) “United States: From Membership to Advocacy” (34) Is Bowling Together Sociologically Lite?@@@Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (33) Democracy's victory and crisis: Democracy in America at century's end (33) How’s the Job? Are Trust and Social Capital Neglected Workplace Investments? (29) Review of toxicology of inorganic lead. (28) Inhalation exposure of cadmium workers: effects of respirator usage. (28) Social Capital and Economic Performance in the American States (27) Reviving community: what policy-makers can do to build social capital in Britain and America (26) Trace metal contamination of evacuated blood collection tubes. (25) Bowling Together: The United State of America (25) Institutional Performance and Political Culture: Some Puzzles about the Power of the Past (24) Diversity, social capital, and immigrant integration: Introductory remarks (22) Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital: Originally published in Journal of Democracy 6 (1), 1995 (22) Attitude Stability among Italian Elites (21) Devolution as a Political Process: The Case of Italy (21) Inequity outside the Classroom: Growing Class Differences in Participation in Extracurricular Activities. (19) Health assessment of employees with different body burdens of lead. (19) Families, Communities, and Education in America: Exploring the Evidence. (18) Patterns of Social Capital: The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840–1940 (17) Officials' Misconduct and Public Distrust: Japan and the Liberal Democracies (15) A Better Society in a Time of War (15) Interdependence and the Italian Communists (15) Approaches to the Study of State Reform in Latin American and Postsocialist Countries@@@Gatekeepers of Growth: The International Political Economy of Central Banking in Developing Countries@@@Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America@@@Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in (15) Religion, Social Networks, and Subjective Well-Being (15) Tellurium and Tellurium Compounds (15) Women's Status and Social Capital in the United States (14) Democracy, Development, and the Civic Community: Evidence from an Italian Experiment (14) America's Grace: How a Tolerant Nation Bridges Its Religious Divides (13) The age of Obama: The changing place of minorities in British and American society (11) The Western Economic Summits: A Political Interpretation (11) Rebuilding the Stock of Social Capital (11) Two-Level Games: The Impact of Domestic Politics on Transatlantic Bargaining (11) Italy - Territorial Politics in the Post-War Years: The Case of Regional Reform (11) Women’s Status and Social Capital across the States (9) God and Caesar in America (9) Methodology of Social Research (8) Capital social y asocial: ensayo crítico sobre Making Democracy Work (8) Italian Foreign Policy: The Emergent Consensus (7) Join the team (6) Comment on “The Institutions and Governance of Economic Development and Reform,” by Williamson (6) Samuel P. Huntington: An Appreciation (5) The Italian Communist Politician (5) A Quarter Century of Declining Confidence: Trouble in Advanced Democracies? (5) What’s Troubling the Trilateral Democracies? [Die Probleme der trilateralen Demokratien] (5) 1996: The Civic Enigma (5) Western Summitry in the 1990s: American Perspectives (5) The rebirth of American civic life (5) Bureaucrats and Politicians: Contending Elites in the Policy Process (5) How Religion Divides and Unites Us (5) The Growth of Voluntary Associations in (5) The age of Obama (5) You gotta have friends. (5) Closing The Divide: Turning Virtual Communities Into Real Ones (4) A Biography of Chris Argyris (4) Why is Democracy More Popular Than Democracies (3) A Better Welcome for Our Nation's Immigrants (3) Bowling Alone: Thinking About Social Change in America (3) Walking Away from Church (3) Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being (2) Reply to Gao et al: Racial composition does not explain increasing class gaps in obesity (2) Walking the Civic Talk after 9/11 (2) It's About Time; Who has time to enjoy family life, connect with the community or be an active citizen? (1) How making democracy work: Social capital and civic traditions in modern Italy (1) With Libya's Megalomaniac 'Philosopher-King' (1) Rallies, Not Riots (1) The Dawn of an Old Age? Why America May Be Ready for a New Progressive Era (1) The Country’s Great Challenge: Enticing the Young to the Voting Booth (1) What's So Darned Special about Church Friends? (1) Let's Play Together (1) Introduction: The G7 Summit Comes of Age (1) American Political Science Association Response to Executive Order 13233. (Features) (1) The G7 Summit Comes of Age (1) A Nation of Doers Needs to Do More (1) Institutional Change in Italy: The First Two Decades (1) Between Center and Periphery: Grassroots Politicians in Italy and France . By Sidney Tarrow. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xv + 272. $15.00.) (1) Managing the dollar: From the plaza to the Louvre : Yoichi Funabashi, (Institute for International Economics, Washington, 1988) pp. 297, $19.95 (1) How joblessness hurts us all (1) Social Fragmentation and Political Hostility: An Austrian Case Study. By Powell G. Bingham Jr., (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1970. Pp. 201. $7.50.) (1) Is soCIal CaPItal rEally tHE CaPItal In tErms of EConomICs? (1) Answering “mother-in-law” questions can move the discipline forward (1) American Civic Life after September 11th (0) The Management of Regional Policies: Endogenous Explanations of Performance (0) Italian Politics and Foreign Policy from Moro to Craxi (0) Mosaic or cracked vase? Diversity and community life (0) Tidal generation: politics and deeper currents in public opinion (0) 67. Bowling Alone (0) BOOK REVIEWS (0) Two concepts in two countries: race and migration (0) Secular and Liminal: Decomposing Religious Nones (0) Distorting mirrors: media framing and political debate (0) Book Reviews : Regional Problems and Policies in Italy and France. By KEVIN ALLEN and M. C. MACLENNAN. (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1970. Pp. 352. $13.50.) (0) APSA Contributors (0) Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies (0) The Basics of Sound Theory and Testing Principles A Brief Guide for Environmental Professionals (0) The Case of Ideology (0) CHAPTER 4. Explaining Institutional Performance (0) America after the Election (0) APPENDIX A. Research Methods (0) Results of trace arsenic analyses performed by various laboratories. (0) Striving for Tocqueville's America (0) Social Capital and Civic Culture: An Approach to the Thinking of Robert D. Putnam (0) Picking Up the Pieces: What Bush Needs to Do Now - Restore Faith in Civic Action (0) CHAPTER 3. Measuring Institutional Performance (0) A Candid Conversation about Schools, Culture, and the Widening Opportunity Gap in America with Professor Robert D. Putnam (0) Let's Get Connected (0) SUMMARY : Informal institutions and economic development (0) Notes on the authors and contributors (0) Will Bush Stand by Volunteers Who Heeded His Call (0) A Generation of Loners (0) Americans May Yet Be Inspired by a Campaign Based on Ideals (0) Back Matter (0) APSA Contributors (0) Home truths: how minorities live (0) Picnics and Memorial Day (0) The rickety ladder of opportunity (0) The Beliefs of Politicians: Ideology, Conflict, and Democracy in Britain and Italy.@@@Political Alienation and Political Behavior. (0) The rickety ladder of opportunity: minorities and work (0) The Lessons of Western Summitry (0) BOOK REVIEWS (0) Översikter och meddelanden Social Capital and Civic Culture : An Approach to the Thinking of (0) Respiratory cartridge efficiency for airborne arsenic: a preliminary report. (0) Government 2010. Strategies of Political Inquiry, G2010 (0) Concluding thoughts: making a success of the revolution (0) September 11th as Civics Lesson (0) Do minority ethnic groups fare better in the US than in Britain? A comparison of their changing fortunes in the labour market (0) APPENDIX. Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games (0) Wanted: A leader for Harvard (0) List of tables, boxes and figures (0) The Role of Social Capital in Development: Index (0) Introduction: the diversity revolution (0) APPENDIX E. Local Government Performance (1982-1986) and Regional Government Performance (1978-1985) (0) Chapter 3. Community-Based Social Capital and Educational Performance (0) On the Autonomy of the Democratic State@@@Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies (0) Civic Disengagement in America (0) Civic Disengagement in Contemporary America (0) The Role of Social Capital in Development: Foreword by Robert D. Putnam (0) Celebrators of the Status Quo: Reflections on the Study of Politics in the 1990s (0) 7 Unemployment : Who or What is to Blame ? (0) Is America Becoming a more Class-Based Society? (0) Bowling Alone But Working Together WORKING TOGETHER : How WORKPLACE (0) La Dolce Vita is Finally Over (0) APPENDIX B. Statistical Evidence on Attitude Change among Regional Councilors (0) Saints and Samurai: The Political Culture of the American and Japanese Elites. (0) The Growing Class Gap (0) Two concepts in two countries (0) Americorpse? We Need National Service (0) Mosaic or cracked vase (0) Regional Problems and Policies in Italy and France (0) Response to Penny Edgell, Kenneth D. Wald, Eric L. McDaniel, and Stratos Patrikios (0) Religious People are 'Better Neighbors' (0) The Changing Role of the Summit in the International Political Economic Structure (0) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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