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	Robet Putnam, social capital and civic community
		Robert Putnam’s marshalling of evidence with regard to this shift; his identification of the causes; and his argument that within the new circumstances new institutions of civic engagement can arise has made him the centre of attention.
		Born and raised in Port Clinton, Ohio, Robert Putnam is one of a long series of writers on community and civic participation that comes from a small town (John Dewey is a another famous example).
		Robert Putnam’s discussion of social capital provides informal educators with a powerful rationale for their activities – after all the classic working environment for the informal educator is the group, club or organization.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/putnam.htm (3945 words)

	civic community @ the informal education homepage
		Putnam (1993: 89) argues, after de Toqueville, that the norms and values of the civic community ‘are embodied in, and reinforced by, distinctive social structures and practices’.
		Putnam then went on to explore some of the historic reasons for the development of civic society in some regions and not in others and the extent to which other possible explanations for the better performance of democratic institutions in some regions rather than others.
		Putnam went on, famously, to apply his analysis around civic community and social capital to what he saw was a decline in civic engagement in the United States (in Bowling Alone 1995; 2000).
	www.infed.org /association/civic_community.htm (2612 words)

	putnam.html
		Sitting in his tidy office at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Robert Putnam '63 doesn't strike you as a "public intellectual." In fact if it weren't for the university press books and volumes of policy journals that line the narrow room's bookshelves, you wouldn't even guess that Putnam was an academic.
		While Putnam is quick to caution that he is not arguing for a return to the 1950s, his ideas do not exactly place a primacy on the autonomy of the individual.
		Putnam's current focus is on discovering new channels through which people can connect to their communities and build social capital, since his findings of civic decline suggest that the old channels--like Rotary Clubs and bowling leagues--no longer do the job.
	www.swarthmore.edu /bulletin/archive/97/sept97/putnam.html (2216 words)

	The Relation Between Civic Society and Newspapers in the Writings of Alexis de Tocqueville and Robert Putnam
		In his survey of civic participation in Italy, Putnam counts the degree of citizen participation in associations among the indicators of a region's degree of civic community, i.e., the extent to which citizens participate in public affairs, take active roles in their communities, vote in regional elections, read newspapers daily, and so forth.
		Although Putnam does not document the direct relationship between the existence of civil associations and political ones, he does show that the regions with a comparatively large number of sports, leisure, and cultural associations also tend to be the regions that rank higher in other correlates that indicate civic community.
		Putnam also found that the regions with the highest levels of newspaper readership were the same regions in which a strong civic community was otherwise the norm.
	www.criticism.com /md/putnam1.html (2042 words)

	Amazon.ca: Making Democracy Work: Books: Robert D. Putnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Putnam then further evaluates the validity of these indicators by surveying both elite and public opinions regarding the institutional performance of their regional governments, to see if the public's perception matches his own.
		Putnam's thesis on the importance of social capital in engendering the successful functioning of democracy is an intriguing idea that merits serious reflection in our context today.
		Putnam states that it would be impossible to measure northern Italian social capital at 1100 ad from the perspective of 1120 ad.
	www.amazon.ca /Making-Democracy-Work-Robert-Putnam/dp/0691078890 (2182 words)

	Robert Putnam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert David Putnam (born January 9, 1941 in Rochester, New York) is a political scientist and professor at Harvard University, well-known for his writings on civic engagement, civil society, and social capital.
		Putnam also developed the influential two-level game theory that assumes international agreements will only be successfully brokered if they also result in domestic benefits.
		Putnam graduated from Swarthmore College in 1963, won a Fulbright Fellowship to study at Oxford University, and went on to earn master's and doctorate degrees from Yale University, the latter in 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Putnam (707 words)

	Amazon.de: Bowling Alone: English Books: Robert D. Putnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Putnam shows that civic clubs that have shown growth in membership since the 1960's have mostly been in massive national organizations whose membership is nothing more than people on mailing lists who pay an annual fee.
		Putnam does not place the blame for this on one source, but cites the entrance of women into the workforce, high levels of divorce, and urban sprawl among others as possible contributors.
		Robert Putnam has gathered more statistics than one would think possible in his effort to prove that communities are under siege in America.
	www.amazon.de /Bowling-Alone-Robert-D-Putnam/dp/0743203046 (2870 words)

	USA Today, Robert Putnam Wrong About Millennials \| Future Majority
		Volunteering is rising, says Robert Putnam, author of the 2000 book Bowling Alone, which is about the breakdown of social connections and the decline of civic engagement.
		In his rockstar keynote address, Putnam said not only was youth involvement and voting up for the first time in 40 years, but that it was maybe the one truly great thing to happen to the US since 9/11.
		Putnam then went on to explain how this huge mass of what will be the next Great Generation, could either save the country or end it.
	futuremajority.com /node/21 (1138 words)

	Robert W. Putnam, Ph.D. -- Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology at Wright State University ...
		Putnam RW, Filosa JA, Ritucci NA (2004) Cellular mechanisms involved in CO and acid signaling in chemosensitive neurons.
		Fiolosa JA, Dean JB, Putnam RW (2002) Role of intracellular and extracellular pH in the chemosensitive response of rat locus coeruleus neurones.
		Putnam RW (2001) Intracellular pH regulation of neurons in chemosensitive and nonchemosensitive areas of brain slices.
	www.med.wright.edu /ncbp/putnam.html (830 words)

	Life Matters Archive - 25/12/2001: Robert Putnam on Community
		Robert Putnam is the author of the term 'social capital', which refers to community bonds and interpersonal connections.
		Robert Putnam really wants to drive home the idea that it's the day-to-day social connections through membership of organisations, through having friends over to your house, through voluntary work, that make for a strong community.
		Robert Putnam's book, 'Bowling Alone, The Collapse and Revival of American Community' is a Simon & Schuster publication, not easily available in Australia, you have to order it through a good bookstore, so you might like to tackle that.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lm/stories/s422145.htm (5911 words)

	Robert Adams
		Robert went to court twice against his brother Moses R. Adams, first in 1814 on a charge of trespass, assault and battery and again in 1817.
		Robert Adams was in the 1840 Whitley Co. census shown with unmarried sons Allen and John Q. Son Lewis was living in Delaware Co. at the 1840 census.
		Though Eliza's parents were in Putnam Co. NY in May 1841, where they were settling the inheritance of her mother Chloe (Shaw) Adams, they returned to IN by fall.
	home.att.net /~thomas.c.newman/fifth-robert.html (2334 words)

	Mediating Democracy: What Robert Putnam Wouldn’t Tell Us in Bowling Alone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Putnam, here, wants readers to think that that any “political interpretation of the collapse of American unionism” would be both “simplistic” (and therefore not worthy of any further consideration), and limited in its scope to Reagan’s attack on PATCO.
		Putnam prefers to leave his readers believing that those job losses were as natural as the falling leaves in autumn, and that American workers just suddenly lost their interest in union activism, as if they quit caring about their wages, benefits, safety, and other issues tied to the their working conditions.
		Putnam similarly ignores the history of broadcasting, and the political maneuverings responsible for creating the system of radio and television broadcasting that we have come to accept as natural and inevitable.
	www.epluribusmedia.org /columns/20060707gabbard.html (2706 words)

	Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, at JFK School of Government, Harvard University
		Robert D. Putnam's 2006 Skytte Prize lecture concerning this issue will be published in Scandinavian Political Studies in early 2007.
		Robert D. Putnam was awarded the 2006 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in Uppsala, Sweden, on Sept. 30.
		Robert Putnam spoke to OECD Educational Ministers about "Education and Social Cohesion" in Dublin on March 18, 2004.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /saguaro (1734 words)

	www.robertclark.net - Civil Society
		Putnam also examined historical indicators, and found similar evidence of disengagement in USA between 1865 and 1890, as part of industrialisation, immigration, etc. Then, between 1890 and 1910, lots of new organisations were formed, such as the YMCA, Red Cross, Boy Scouts and National League of Cities.
		Putnam concludes that we are at present going through a similar transformation to the period 1865-1890, due to factors such as television, the global economy and two career families and that we need a new round of reform to reinvent new social organisations.
		Putnam has initiated the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, a series of meetings with the mission "To develop a handful of far-reaching, actionable ideas that will significantly increase Americans’ connectedness to one another and to community institutions over the next five years." (First Meeting)
	www.robertclark.net /civilsociety/index.htm (1783 words)

	Robert Putnam on The Paula Gordon Show
		Robert Putnam summarizes the importance of social connections/isolation in conversation with Paula Gordon and Bill Russell and considers our ambivalence toward both conditions.
		It was a particular delight to Paula to find that she and Dr. Putnam had both been enriched by knowing the great John Lewis, PhD., the long-time head of the Government Department at Oberlin College.
		Karena Cronin, who supports the work both of Dr. Putnam and of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, went out of her way to be helpful when airlines weren’t.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/putnam (1029 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Writer Profile :: ROBERT D. PUTNAM
		ROBERT D. "America at the end of the 19th century, as at the end of the 20th, suffered all the symptoms of a social capital deficit.
		Back then, crime rates were rising; the gap between rich and poor was growing; there was degradation in the cities; people experienced political alienation and sensed corruption in the system.
		ROBERT D. To the editors: On March 16, The Crimson ran a story on Weatherhead University Professor Samuel Huntington and his forthcoming book on Latino immigrants (News, “Critics Claim Huntington Is Xenophobic”).
	www.thecrimson.com /writer.aspx?id=2151 (222 words)

	Family Centered Community Building
		Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American politics, international relations, comparative politics, and public policy.
		Before coming to Harvard in 1979, Putnam taught at the University of Michigan and served on the staff of the National Security Council.
		Putnam is currently the President of the American Political Science Association for 2001 - 2002.
	www.mtsu.edu /~famcom/fall01/putnam.htm (274 words)

	Robert Putnam - Bowling Alone - Journal of Democracy 6:1
		The Putnam Piece is one of the most influential pieces of the last 10 years.
		Robert Wuthnow reports that fully 40 percent of all Americans claim to be "currently involved in [a] small group that meets regularly and provides support or caring for those who participate in it."
		Putnam is Dillon Professor of International Affairs and director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
	www.louisville.edu /~pglaem01/390/bowling.htm (5625 words)

	Robert Putnam's Profile at Harvard University
		Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses.
		Putnam has worked on these themes with both the Clinton and Bush White Houses, as well as with the Blair Government, the Irish Taoiseach, and other political leaders and grassroots civic activists around the world.
		Putnam, Robert D.; with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti.
	ksgfaculty.harvard.edu /robert_putnam (445 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Putnam's argument that he's explaining something we all know to be true and that we're losing something in our society that we'd rather keep, combined to create a rare social sciences article that was accessible and of interest to the general public and that had to be refuted by the Left.
		Putnam followed up with this book-length treatment of his topic, which seeks to shore up his original case, against those critics who sought to minimize or even deny the decline of social capital.
		Putnam may or may not consider himself a communitarian, it's sometimes hard to figure out who is and who isn't, but his analysis is certainly consistent with that of the Communitarians and has both its strengths and its weaknesses.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1217 (5411 words)

	NPR : Going Bowling
		All Things Considered, May 31, 2000 ·; Robert Siegel talks with Robert Putnam who is author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.
		Putnam uses an observation about the decline in bowling leagues in the U-S as a metaphor to describe the increasing alienation of Americans from their families and communities, and the political process.
		Says Putnam, "People watch Friends on TV -- they don't have them." (7:30) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is published by Simon & Sh 'E-mail this Story' sponsored by: Kean: We Get IT Done.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1074874 (167 words)

	Steve Sailer: iSteve.com Blog Archives: Robert D. Putnam solves all the problems caused by diversity
		But Prof Putnam, a liberal who sometimes seems to shrink from the impact of his own findings, insists there are ways of avoiding it.
		To illustrate, he tells the story of his eight-year-old granddaughter, Miriam, whose father is Puerto Rican and who was brought up for the first few years of her life in Puerto Rico, then moved to an American school.
		The Hispanic category was quietly invented by Nixon's OMB in 1973, but disinventing it would be vastly more difficult since large amounts of affirmative action goodies come with it, and thus the beneficiaries have financial incentives to smear as "racist" anybody who calls for ending it.
	isteve.blogspot.com /2006/10/robert-d-putnam-solves-all-problems.html (940 words)

	Never Yet Melted » Robert Putnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Harvard Professor Robert Putnam started his march to fame, when he published his highly provocative journal article Bowling Alone in 1995, discussing the breakdown of community in America.
		Professor Putnam told the Financial Times he had delayed publishing his research until he could develop proposals to compensate for the negative effects of diversity, saying it “would have been irresponsible to publish without that”.
		Putnam will be studying similar trends in Europe soon, directing a research program on “social change” at Manchester University.
	neveryetmelted.com /?cat=1034 (427 words)

	Interview with Robert Putnam
		PUTNAM: I used the title because, frankly, I didn't want people to think that the trend of disengagement from civic life that I was talking about was limited to participation in do- gooder organizations like the League for Women Voters.
		PUTNAM: I had just gotten my PhD and was in Rome, with my one-year-old and three-year-old, trying to set up interviews with members of the Italian parliament for another study I wanted to do.
		PUTNAM: Well, let's take the toughest case, which is my claim, partly but not entirely tongue-in-cheek, that the fate of the republic hangs on the fact that Americans are no longer engaging in league bowling.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/DETOC/assoc/aahe.html (2367 words)

	Best-Selling Author Robert Putnam at Willamette University - News Headlines - Willamette University
		According to Robert Putnam, author of the best-selling book, “Bowling Alone,” Americans have disconnected from family, friends, neighbors and social and civic organizations at an alarming rate.
		For his book, Putnam examined nearly 500,000 interviews over the last quarter century to show that we sign fewer petitions, belong to fewer organizations that meet, know our neighbors less, meet with friends less frequently and even socialize with our families less often.
		Putnam’s visit is sponsored by the Lilly Project, the Willamette University Events Board, and the politics and sociology departments of the University.
	blog.willamette.edu /news/archives/2004/10/bestselling_aut.php (306 words)

	EconLog, I Distrust Robert Putnam, Arnold Kling: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Robert D. Putnam gave a talk on this issue as the Skytte Prize lecture, to be published in Scandinavian Political Studies in early 2007.
		The talk emphasized three key points: 1) increased diversity and immigration are essential and generally strengthen advanced nations; 2) but in the short-term, diversity/immigration challenges community cohesion; and 3) longer-term, successful immigrant societies overcome these challenges by reducing the importance placed on ethnic and racial differences and by building a broader conception of the "we".
		Putnam is positioning his research in ways to maximize sensationalist coverage, and then complaining about sensationalist coverage.
	econlog.econlib.org /archives/2006/10/i_distrust_robe.html (690 words)

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