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Robert D.
Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy
at Harvard University. He is also the founder of The
Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement
in America, a program that has brought together leading practitioners
and thinkers for a multi-year discussion to develop broad-scale,
actionable
ideas to fortify our nation’s civic connectedness. He is now conducting research on the challenges of building community in an increasingly diverse society. In addition, Putnam is also Visiting Professor and Director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester in the U.K.
Before coming
to Harvard in 1979, Putnam taught at the University of Michigan and
served on the staff of the National Security Council. He has authored
or co-authored
ten books and more than thirty scholarly works, including Bowling
Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Putnam is
a member
of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy,
a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations, |
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a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and a former President of the American Political
Science Association. A former Dean of the John
F. Kennedy School of Government,
he has also served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Director of the Center for International Affairs, and Chairman of the
Department of Government at Harvard. He has been consulted by both the
Clinton and Bush White Houses, by leading governors and members of congress
from both parties, by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Irish Prime
Minister Bertie Ahern, and by national leaders from Germany to Finland
to New Zealand. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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