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April 5, 2021, Video: "The JMU College of Business Spring 2021 Economic Seminar Series hosted guest speaker Robert D. Putnam, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and author of “The Upswing” on March 24, 2021. Check out this insightful exchange between SSLS student Kai Degner and Putnam on free speech, listening, and the importance of citizens feeling heard by societal leaders."
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| Robert D. Putnam
March 22, 2021, Video: "Robert Putnam is the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He is a leading political scientist recognized by the Skytte Prize — the world’s highest accolade for a political scientist. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal. His books have been translated into twenty languages. Alumni of his small “Community in America” seminar at Harvard have gone on to distinguished…
| Robert D. Putnam
February 9, 2021, Video: "Starting soon in the virtual JFK Jr. Forum — Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett join moderator Jonathan Capehart for a discussion on rebuilding community and how America can once again go from 'I' to 'We.' The conversation begins at 6pm ET." Watch Via the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics
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November 9, 2020, Video: "The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. (no excerpt)"
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October 2020, Book: "An eminent political scientist’s brilliant analysis of economic, social, and political trends over the past century demonstrating how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger, more unified nation—from the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids. Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented…
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A Country Divided: The Growing Opportunity Gap in America. Robert Putnam, 2016, Paper, "Are the destinies of children from poor and wealthy families diverging? This paper explains why this is the question to ask if we wish to study equality of opportunity in America today. Drawing on the research behind Robert Putnam’s (2015) Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, we show that, since the 1970s, children in the top-third and the bottom-third of…
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A Conversation With Robert D. Putnam. Robert Putnam, March 16, 2016, Video. "A best-selling author and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, Robert Putnam is one of America's leading political scientists. In recent years, he has written widely on the decline in America's civic life, and, with it, our capacity for self-government. In this conversation, Putnam discusses his research on declining levels of civic participation in America and…
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A Candid Conversation about Schools, Culture, and the Widening Opportunity Gap in America with Professor Robert D. Putnam. Robert Putnam, October 20, 2015 , Opinion. "Robert D. Putnam brings our attention to the worsening problem of inequality of opportunity in American society. Though it is a daunting problem that goes far beyond the realm of higher education, Putnam shares a hopeful message of the potential to return to our core values of…
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RSA Replay: Closing the Opportunity Gap. Robert Putnam, October 14, 2015, Video. "The annual RSA Chairman’s lecture is delivered by the distinguished political scientist and founding father of social capital theory, Professor Robert Putnam." Link
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. Robert Putnam, March 10, 2015. Book. "A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in—a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and…