Robert D. Putnam

Robert David Putnam born 1941 is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter as well as 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 whether they also solution in domestic benefits. His most famous together with 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. In March 2015, he published a book called Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis that looked at issues of inequality of possibility in the United States. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Putnam is the fourth near frequently cited author on college syllabi for political science courses.

Background

Robert David Putnam was born on January 9, 1941, in Malkin Professor of Public Policy. Putnam was raised as a religiously observant Methodist. In 1963, Putnam married his wife Rosemary, a special education teacher and French horn player. Around the time of his marriage, he converted to Judaism, his wife's religion.