Robert
D. Putnam, The Peter and Isabel
Malkin Professor of Public Policy, principal investigator of
The Saguaro Seminar, and seminar participant
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor
of Public Policy. He has served as chairman of Harvard's
Department of Government, Director of the Center for International
Affairs, and Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He is author or co-author of seven books and more than thirty
scholarly articles published in ten languages, including Making
Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (1993); Double-Edged
Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (1993); Hanging
Together: The Seven-Power Summits (1984); Bureaucrats
and Politicians in Western Democracies (1981); Comparative
Study of Political Elites (1976); and Beliefs of
Politicians (1973). Professor Putnam was educated at
Swarthmore College, Balliol College, Oxford; and Yale University,
and has received honorary degrees from Swarthmore and Stockholm
University. He has taught at the University of Michigan and
served on the staff of the National Security Council. In
2001-2002 he served as President of the American Political
Science Association. He has written numerous books including
the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival
of American Community (2000), and more recently a collective
volume Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital
in Contemporary Society (2002). He is now completing
a study of promising new forms of social connectedness in
communities across America and beginning new research on
the challenges of building community in an increasingly diverse
society.
Selected articles by Robert Putnam include:
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To hear or read interviews with Robert Putnam visit the following sites:
For more readings on social capital,
go to thepage
on the Saguaro Seminar site.
Dr. Thomas H.
Sander,Executive
Director of the Saguaro Seminar. Prior
to taking this position, he was Director of the Fund for Social
Entrepreneurs at Youth Service America and served as a senior policy
advisor on national service for the U.S. Senate’s Labor and
Human Resources Committee, where he played a major role in the
enactment of the 1993 National Service Trust Act. In addition,
he has worked as a management consultant at Bain and Company and
assisted Harvard University’s president in negotiating and
consummating some of the first debt for education swaps in the
world. He received a J.D. from the Harvard Law School. email Tom
To access articles written or co-written
by Tom For more information about BetterTogether or the Saguaro Seminar, write to:
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