R D. PUTNAM

ROBERT D. PUTNAM
Curriculum Vitae
March 2006
Office Address:
Home Address:
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
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Vital Statistics
Born January 9, 1941, Rochester, New York. US citizen.
Married Rosemary Werner Putnam; two (married) children and five grandchildren.
Education
Swarthmore College, B.A. (Highest Honors), 1963; LL.D. (Honorary), 1990
Oxford University (Balliol College), 1963-64
Yale University, M.A., 1965, Ph.D. with distinction, 1970
Stockholm University, Dott. Phil. (honorary), 1993; Ohio State University (honorary), 2000; University
of Antwerp (honorary), 2000; University of Edinburgh (honorary), 2003.
Academic Career
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, 2000 - , Stanfield Professor of International Peace,
1996 - 2000, Professor of Government, 1979 - , Harvard University
Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government and Don K. Price Professor of Politics, Harvard
University, 1989 - 1991.
Director, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1993 - 1996.
Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1986-1988; 1992-1994.
Chairman, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1984-88.
Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, 1975-79
(Associate Professor, 1972-75; Assistant Professor, 1970-72; Lecturer, 1968-70)
Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Catania (Italy), 1977
Visiting Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University (Sweden), 1974
Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Faculty of History and St. Johns College, Cambridge University
(England), 2002-03
Selected fellowships and awards
Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, 2006.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2001 –
Corresponding [i.e., foreign] Fellow, British Academy, 2001 –
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1980 –
Member, American Philosophical Society, 2005 –
Harold Lasswell Fellow, American Academic of Political and Social Science, 2005
Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration, 1989 – 2006
Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for outstanding career achievement, Yale Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, 2003
Awarded honor of Commendatore in the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity by the President of the
Italian Republic, 2004.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1963 Guggenheim Fellow, 1988-89
Marshall Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 1999
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1974-75; 1988-89
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1977; 1979
Other fellowships: Fulbright (1964-65; 1977); SSRC-ACLS (1966-68); Ford Foundation (1970); Council
on Foreign Relations (1977-78); German Marshall Fund (1979); SSRC-Fulbright (1982); and SSRCForeign Policy Studies (1988-89).
Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 1981Member, International Institute of Strategic Studies, 1986Member, The Trilateral Commission, 1990-1998
Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration (1993); Gregory Luebbert Award of the American Political Science Association (1994); and Charles H. Levin Award of the
International Political Science Association (1994) for Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in
Modern Italy.
Ithiel de Sola Pool Award and Lectureship, American Political Science Association, 1995.
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Professional Service
President, American Political Science Association, 2001-2002; President-Elect, 2000-2001; Vice
President, 1997-98.
Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 1971-76; British Journal of Political Science, 197579; International Organization, 1989; Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1983-99; Nonprofit and Voluntary
Sector Quarterly, 2000-2004; Comparative Political Studies, 1982-2005; American Sociological Review,
2004- ; Critical Review, 2004- .
Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 1978-1981
Executive Committee, British Politics Group, 1974-76; 1977-79
President, Conference Group on Italian Politics, 1981-83
Executive Committee, Council on European Studies, 1983-86
Advisory Board, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, 1987-89
Advisory Council on Environmentally Sustainable Development, World Bank, 1992-96
Advisory Board Member, Westchester (NY) Children’s Museum; Thomas C. Wales Foundation (Seattle,
WA); Anne E. Borghesani Community Foundation (Lexington, MA).
Public Service
Staff Member, U.S. National Security Council, 1978
Member, President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, 2003 –
Occasional consultant, Department of State and Central Intelligence Agency, 1975-1985; World Bank,
1992 – 1998; White House, 1995 – ; British government agencies, 2002 –; Irish Taoiseach, 2001 –.
Research in Progress
The changing role of religion in contemporary American civic life: A major empirical study, including
field studies and national surveys, of how religion influences social life and politics in the US.
Diversity, equality, and community. A major empirical study of how diversity and immigration, social
and economic equality, and social capital are related across time and space, especially in the US.
Workplace, family, and community: A collaborative study (with Jodie Heymann, M.D.) of how
workplace practices affect family and community life, based on a national survey.
Language Competence
Italian (good)
German (fair)
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
The Beliefs of Politicians: Ideology, Conflict, and Democracy in Britain and Italy (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1973).
The Comparative Study of Political Elites (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976).
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1981). (with Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman).
Hanging Together: The Seven-Power Summits (London: Heinemann and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1984). Revised and updated editions in German, Weltwirtschaftsgipfel imWandel
(Bonn: Europa Union Verlag, 1985); Japanese, The Seven-Power Summits (Tokyo: TBS-Britannica,
1986); Italian, Sovrani ma interdipendenti: I vertici dei paesi più industrializzati (Bologna: Il Mulino,
1987); and English, Hanging Together: Conflict and Cooperation in the Seven-Power Summits (London:
Sage, and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988). (with Nicholas Bayne).
La Pianta e le Radici: Il Radicamento dell'Istituto Regionale nel Sistema Politico Italiano [The Plant
and its Roots: The Implantation of Regional Government in the Italian Political System] (Bologna: Il
Mulino, 1985). (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti)
Effetto Regione: Istituzionalizzazione e Cambiamento in Basilicata [The Regional Effect:
Institutionalization and Change in Basilicata] (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1987). (with Robert Leonardi and
Raffaella Y. Nanetti).
Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics, edited with Peter B. Evans
and Harold K. Jacobson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1993). (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Nanetti). Published in Italian as La tradizione civica nelle
regioni italiane (Milano: Mondadori, 1993); in Spanish (Caracas, Venezuela: Galac, 1994; Quito,
Ecuador: CORDES, 2000 [abridged]); Swedish (Stockholm: SNS, 1995); Polish (Krakow, Poland:
ZNAK, 1995); Portuguese (Río de Janeiro: Editora FGV, 1996 & 2005); Russian (Moscow: Moscow
School of Political Science, 1996); Catalan (Barcelona, Spain: Edicions Proa SA, 1998); Korean (Seoul:
Pak Young.Publishing, 2000); Romanian (Bucharest: TREI, 2000); Ukrainian (Kiev: Osnovy, 2000);
Japanese (Tokyo: NTT Shuppan 2001); Chinese (Beijing: Jiangxi People's Publishing House, 2001);
Lithuanian (Kaina: Atviros Lietuvos Knyga, 2001); Persian (Tehran, 2001); Croatian (Zagreb: Faculty of
Political Science at Zagreb University, 2003); Arabic (Cairo: Arabic Book Program, 2007).
Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries?, edited with Susan J. Pharr
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster,
2000). Translations into Swedish (Stockholm: SNS, 2001); Spanish (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg,
2002); Italian (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004); Japanese (Tokyo: Kashiwashobo, 2006); Chinese (Peking
University Press, 2006).
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society, ed. (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002). Published in German (Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2001) and Spanish (2003).
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Better Together: Restoring the American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003) With Lewis
Feldstein and Don Cohen.
Report of national commission that I chaired (though I did not draft the report itself): Better Together:
Report of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America (Cambridge, 2000) at
http://www.bettertogether.org/.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"Political Attitudes and the Local Community," American Political Science Review LX (September
1966) pp. 640-654. Reprinted in Betty H. Zisk (ed.) American Political Interest Groups: Readings in
Theory and Research (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1969); in Fred W. Grupp, Jr., and Marvin
Maurer (eds.), Political Behavior in the United States: Readings in American Government (AppletonCentury-Crofts, 1972); in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Politics and Government (Bobbs-Merrill,
1973), and in Gerald Eberlein (ed.), Multilevel Analysis (Reidel Publishing Company, 1978).
"Towards Explaining Military Intervention in Latin American Politics," World Politics XX (October
1967) pp. 83-110. Reprinted in Jason Finkle and Richard W. Gable (eds.), Political Development and
Social Change (Wiley, revised edition, 1971); in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Politics and
Government (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1973); in Abraham F. Lowenthal (ed.) Armies and Politics in
Latin America (Homes & Meier, 1976); and in Ikuo Kabashima and Lynn White, III (eds.), Political
System and Change (Princeton University Press, 1986).
"Studying Elite Political Culture: The Case of 'Ideology,'", American Political Science Review LXV
(September 1971) pp.651-681. Reprinted in Giuseppe Di Palma (ed.), Politics in Industrialized Societies
(Markham, 1972); in Allen R. Wilcox (ed.), Public Opinion and Political Attitudes: A Reader (John
Wiley & Sons, 1973); in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Politics and Government (Bobbs-Merrill
Company, 1973); in Warner Modular Publications Reprint Series in Political Science (1974); and in
Richard Rose (ed.), Studies in British Politics (London: Macmillan, 1976).
"The Political Attitudes of Senior Civil Servants in Western Europe: A Preliminary Report," British
Journal of Political Science, v. 3 (July 1973), pp. 257-290. Reprinted in translation as "Atteggiamenti
Politici dell'Alta Burocrazia nell'Europa Occidentale," Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, v. 3 (1973),
pp. 145-186. Abridged version reprinted in New Society (London), v. 27 (10 January 1974), pp. 63-65.
Reprinted in whole in Warner Modular Publications Reprint Series in Political Science (1974). Revised
version reprinted in Mattei Dogan (ed.), The Political Role of Top Civil Servants: The New Mandarins
(Sage Publications, 1975), and in translation as "Die politischen Einstellungen der Ministerialbeamten in
Westeuropa," Politische Vierteljahresschrift v. 17 (March 1976), pp. 23-61.
"The Italian Communist Politician," in Donald L.M. Blackmer and Sidney Tarrow, (eds.), Communism in
Italy and France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975). Reprinted in translation as "Politica e
Ideologia dei Dirigenti Comunisti Italiani," Il Mulino XXIII, n. 232 (March-April. 1974), pp. 178-218.
"Bureaucrats and Politicians: Contending Elites in the Policy Process," in Perspectives on Public PolicyMaking, William B. Gwyn and George C. Edwards, III (eds.), New Orleans: Tulane University Studies in
Political Science, vol. 15 (1975), pp. 179-202.
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"Italian Foreign Policy: The Emergent Consensus," in Howard B.Penniman (ed.), Italy at the Polls: The
Parliamentary Election of 1976 (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research, 1977), pp. 287-326.
"Elite Transformation in Advanced Industrial Societies: An Empirical Assessment of the Theory of
Technocracy," Comparative Political Studies, vol. 10 (October 1977), pp.383-412.
"Interdependence and the Italian Communists," International Organization, vol. 32 (Spring 1978), pp.
301-349.
"Attitude Stability among Italian Elites," American Journal of Political Science, v. 23 (August 1979), pp.
463-494. (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Nanetti).
"Le regioni 'misurati,'" Il Mulino, v. 24, n. 268 (March-April, 1980) pp. 217-243. (with Robert Leonardi
and Raffaella Nanetti).
"Devolution as a Political Process: The Case of Italy," Publius (Winter 1981), pp. 95-117. (with Robert
Leonardi and Raffaella Nanetti).
"Sul rendimento delle istituzioni: il caso dei governi regionali italiani," Rivista Trimestrale del Diritto
Pubblico, (Rome: 1981, vol. 2) (with Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Nanetti, and Franco Pavoncello).
"L'evaluation de l'activite` regionale: le cas italien," Pouvoirs, (Paris: 1981, vol. 19, pp. 39-58) (with
Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Nanetti, and Franco Pavoncello).
"L'istituzionalizzazione delle Regioni in Italia," Le Regioni (Milan), v. 10 (November-December, 1982),
pp. 1078-1107. (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Nanetti).
"Explaining Institutional Success: The Case of Italian Regional Government," American Political
Science Review, v. 77 (March 1983), pp. 55-74. (with Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Nanetti, and Franco
Pavoncello).
"I Vertici dei Paesi Industrializzati," Affari Esteri, vol. XV, n. 60 (Autumn, 1983) (with Antonio
Badini).
"Summit Sense," Foreign Policy, no. 55 (Summer, 1984), pp. 73-91.
"The Western Economic Summits: A Political Interpretation," in Western Summits and Europe: Rivalry,
Cooperation, and Partnership, Cesare Merlini (ed.) (London: Croon Helm, 1984).
"The Lessons of Western Summitry," in Global Dilemmas, Samuel P. Huntington and Joseph S. Nye,
eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985), pp. 3-22.
"Der zweite Bonner Weltwirtschaftsgipfel," in Europa Archiv, vol. 40, no. 8 (April 1985), pp. 233-242.
"Italian Politics and Foreign Policy from Moro to Craxi," Foreign Policy and Defense Review, vol. 6
(July 1986), pp. 13-21.
"I rapporti Europa-Stati Uniti negli anni '80: una prospettiva americana," in Il Dialogo con gli Stati Uniti
e il Malessere Europeo, Paolo Foresti, ed. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1986), pp. 35-48.
"Samuel P. Huntington: An Appreciation," PS, vol. 19 (Fall 1986).
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"The Management of Regional Policies: Endogenous Explanations of Performance," in Subnational
Politics in the 1980s: Organization, Reorganization and Economic Development, Louis A. Picard and
Raphael Zariski, eds. (New York: Praeger, 1987), pp. 103-18. (with Raffaella Y. Nanetti and Robert
Leonardi).
"Indagini sul governo regionale del Friuli-Venezia Giulia," in La Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Arduino
Agnelli and Sergio Bartole, eds. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1987), pp. 499-563. (with Robert Leonardi and
Raffaella Y. Nanetti).
"Italy -- Territorial Politics in the Post-War Years: The Case of Regional Reform," in Tensions in
Territorial Politics of Western Europe, R.A.W. Rhodes and Vincent Wright, eds. (London: Frank Cass,
1987), pp. 88-107. (with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti).
"Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games," International Organization, vol.
41, no. 3 (Summer, 1988), pp. 427-460. Reprinted as "Diplomazia e politica interna: La logica dei
giochi a due livelli," Quaderni (Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, Milano, July 1988), no. 6.
"Institutional Performance and Political Culture: Some Puzzles about the Power of the Past,"
Governance, vol. 1, no. 3 (July 1988), pp. 221-242. Reprinted as "Rendimento istituzionale e cultura
politica: qualche interrogativo sul potere del passato," Polis (Bologna) vol. 2, no. 3 (December 1988), pp.
483-508.
"The Bonn Summit of 1978: A Case Study in Coordination," in Can Nations Cooperate?, Richard N.
Cooper et al. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1989), pp. 12-140. (with C. Randall
Henning).
"The Changing Role of the Summit in the International Political Economic Structure," Diplomatic Forum
(June 1989) (in Japanese).
“Per rivitalizzare la democrazia americana,” Queste istituzioni (Rome), XX, n. 90-91 (1992), pp. 40-49.
“Two-Level Games: The Impact of Domestic Politics on Transatlantic Bargaining,” in America and
Europe in an Era of Change, Helga Haftendorn and Christian Tuschhoff, eds. (Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 1993), pp. 69-83.
“Democracy, Development, and the Civic Community: Evidence from an Italian Experiment,” in Culture
and Development in Africa, Ismail Serageldin and June Taboroff, eds. (Proceedings of an International
Conference held at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., April 2-3, 1992), vol. 1, pp. 29-76. [extracted
from Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1993).]
“The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life,” The American Prospect, no. 13 (Spring
1993), pp. 35-42. Reprinted in Foundations of Social Capital, Elinor Ostrom and T. K. Ahn, eds.
(Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003); in The American Prospect Reader in American
Politics, Walter Dean Burnham, ed. (Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House Publishers, 1995); in Sources:
Notable Selections in Sociology, Kurt Finsterbusch and Janet S. Schwartz, eds. (Dushkin Publishing
Group, 1995); in Swedish in Politikens Väsen [The Essence of Politics: Ideas and Institutions in the
Modern State], Björn von Sydow, Gunnar Wallin, and Björn Wittrock, eds. (Stockholm: Tidens förlag,
1993); in Russian in The World Economy and International Relations Journal (March 1995); in Spanish
in Sociedad Civil: Análisi y Debates vol. 1, pp. 9-23 (Mexico City, Spring 1997); and in Japanese in
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Handbook of Political Psychology, Junichi Kawata and Yoshinobu Araki, ed. (Tokyo: Hokuju Publisher,
2003). Excerpted in Wingspread Journal vol. 17 (Racine, WI: Johnson Foundation, 1995): 4-7.
“Celebrators of the Status Quo: Reflections on the Study of Politics in the 1990s,” Clio, vol. 3, no. 1 (Fall
& Winter, 1992/1993), pp. 1-3.
“What Makes Democracy Work?” National Civic Review (Spring, 1993), pp. 101-107.
“Institutional Change in Italy: The First Two Decades,” in Responsible Governance: The Global
Challenge (Essays in honor of Charles E. Gilbert), John W. Harbeson, Raymond F. Hopkins, and David
G. Smith, eds. (New York: University Press of America, 1994), pp. 121-176. [extracted from Robert D.
Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1993).]
“Western Summitry in the 1990s: American Perspectives,” International Spectator, vol. 29, no. 2 (AprilJune 1994), pp. 81-93. Also published in Italian as “Passato e presente dei vertici: le posizioni
dell’amministrazione Clinton,” in Il Vertice dei Sette, Guido Garavoglia and Cesare Merlini, eds.
(Milano: Franco Angeli, 1994), pp. 95-110.
“Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital,” Journal of Democracy, vol. 6 , no. 1 (January
1995), pp. 65-78. Reprinted in revised form as “Bowling Alone, Revisited” in The Responsive
Community, , vol. 5, no. 2 (Spring 1995), pp. 18-33. Reprinted in Sources: Notable Selections in
Sociology, Kurt Finsterbush and Janet Schwartz, eds. (Brown and Benchmark: Guilford, CT, 1995) and
Sociological Footprints, Jeanne Ballantine, ed. (Wadsworth: Belmont, California, 1996). Excerpted in
National Voter (League of Women Voters) 45 (September/October 1995): 9-11; American Association
for Higher Education Bulletin 48 (September 1995): 3-6; The American Legion (American Legion) 139
(November 1995): 27, 70, 75; Friendly Exchange (Farmers Insurance Group) (Winter 1995); Wingspread
Journal (Johnson Foundation) 17 (Autumn 1995): 4-7; People (September 25, 1995): 125-128; MacNeilLehrer Newshour; NPR “Soundprint; NPR “Morning Edition.” Longer version appears in Participation
East and West: Comparisons and Interpretations, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and
Bjorn Wittrock, eds. (ME Sharpe: Armonk, New York: 1998).
“Introduction: The G7 Summit Comes of Age,” in The Halifax G7 Summit: Issues on the Table, Sylvia
Ostry and Gilbert Winham, eds. (Toronto: 1995) (with Sir Nicholas Bayne).
“Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America,” in P.S.: Political
Science and Politics, vol. 28, no. 4 (December 1995), pp. 1-20. Reprinted in Foundations of Social
Capital, Elinor Ostrom and T. K. Ahn, eds. (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003); and in
abridged form in “The Strange Disappearance of Civic America,” The American Prospect (Winter 1996),
pp. 34-48.
“A Generation of Loners?” The World in 1996 (London: The Economist, 1995), p. 62.
"Economic Growth and Social Capital in Italy" Eastern Economic Journal, Vol 21, No 3, 1995, pp 295307 (with John Helliwell).
“What’s Troubling the Trilateral Democracies?” [Die Probleme der trilateralen Demokratien] in How
Can Democracy Survive?, Werner Weidenfeld, ed. (Guterslöh: Bertelsmann: 1996).
Foreword for volume on social capital, Housing Policy Debate, Volume 9, Issue 1 (1998).
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"The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940," Journal of Interdisciplinary History
vol. 29 (Spring 1999), pp. 511-557. co-authored with Gerald Gamm.
“Rebuilding the Stock of Social Capital,” School Administrator (September 1999) pp. 28-33 (with
Thomas H. Sander).
"Civic Disengagement in America," Government and Opposition, vol. 36 (Spring 2001), pp. 1-22.
"Community-Based Social Capital and Educational Performance," in Making Good Citizens: Education
and Civil Society, Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti, eds. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
“Bowling Together: The United State of America,” The American Prospect, vol. 13 (February 11, 2002),
pp. 20-22. Reprinted with postscript in United We Serve: National Service and the Future of
Citizenship, E.J. Dionne Jr., Kayla Meltzer Drogosz, and Robert E. Litan, eds. (Washington, DC:
Brookings Institution Press, 2003).
“Reviving community: what policy-makers can do to build social capital in Britain and America”
Renewal: A Journal of Labour Politics, Vol.10, No.2 (Spring 2002) (with Andrew K. Leigh).
“Women’s Status and Social Capital across the States,” (Washington, DC: Institute for Women's Policy
Research, July 2002). (with Amy Caiazza). Also published as “Women's Status and Social Capital in the
United States,” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, vol. 27 (2005).
“Education, Diversity, Social Cohesion and ‘Social Capital’,” paper delivered at the meeting of OECD
Education Ministers on “raising the quality of education for all,” (Dublin, Ireland: March 18, 2004).
“Commentary: ‘Health by association’: some comments,” International Journal of Epidemiology (July
2004), 33:1–4.
John Helliwell and Robert D. Putnam, “The Social Context of Well-Being,” Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society (London), Series B, 359: 1435-1446 (31 August 2004). Reprinted in The Science of
Well-being, edited by Felicia Huppert, Nick Baylis, and Barry Keverne, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005).
"1996: The Civic Enigma." The American Prospect, June 2005: 33.
John Helliwell and Robert D. Putnam, “Education and Social Capital,” Eastern Economics Journal, vol.
32 (2007, forthcoming).
OP-EDS
“Striving for Tocqueville's America” Los Angeles Times (June 4, 1990).
“The Dawn of an Old Age? Why America May Be Ready for a New Progressive Era” The Washington
Post (June 23, 1991) with William B. Parent.
“La Dolce Vita is Finally Over” The Independent (London) (March 10, 1993).
“Americorpse? We Need National Service” New York Times (March 24, 1995).
“A Generation of Loners?” The Economist (The World in 1996) (December 1, 1995).
“Picnics and Memorial Day” Knight Ridder News Service (May 27, 2000).
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“Closing The Divide: Turning Virtual Communities Into Real Ones, “ Seattle Post-Intelligencer (June
25, 2000).
“The Country’s Great Challenge: Enticing the Young to the Voting Booth” Boston Globe (August 10,
2000) with David Campbell.
“Join the team” USA Today Weekend (August 25, 2000).
“It's About Time; Who has time to enjoy family life, connect with the community or be an active
citizen?” The San Francisco Chronicle (September 24, 2000) with Kristin Goss.
“Americans May Yet Be Inspired by a Campaign Based on Ideals” San Jose Mercury News (November
12, 2000) with David Campbell.
“America after the Election” Le Monde (November 30, 2000) with Thad Williamson.
“Picking Up the Pieces: What Bush Needs to Do Now - Restore Faith in Civic Action” Newsday (May
17, 2000) with Kristin Goss.
“Let's Play Together” The Observer (London) (March 25, 2001).
“A Better Society in a Time of War” The New York Times (October 19, 2001).
“Walking the Civic Talk after 9/11” Christian Science Monitor (February 19, 2002) with Tom Sander.
“American Civic Life after September 11th” Hankookibo-Korea Times (Seoul) (August 6, 2002) with
Tom Sander.
“Will Bush Stand by Volunteers Who Heeded His Call?” Los Angeles Times (September 24, 2003).
“A Nation of Doers Needs to Do More” Philadelphia Inquirer (December 3, 2004) with John M.
Bridgeland.
“September 11th as Civics Lesson,” Washington Post (September 10, 2005) with Tom Sander.
“Wanted: A leader for Harvard,” Boston Globe (March 5, 2006).
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