Robert Putnam is the Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy at Harvard and the former dean of the Kennedy School of Government. A recipient of the Skytte Prize, the world’s highest accolade for a political scientist, he has written fifteen books, including Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, among the most cited and bestselling social science works in the last half century. Last year he published The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.
Robert Putnam is the Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy at Harvard and the former dean of the Kennedy School of Government. A recipient of the Skytte Prize, the world’s highest accolade for a political scientist, he has written fifteen books, including Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, among the most cited and bestselling social science works in the last half century. Last year he published The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.