Hood College is honored to announce that renowned political scientist and professor Robert Putnam, Ph.D., will visit campus to deliver a lecture, titled "The Erosion of American Democracy and the ...

Robert Putnam’s “Bowling Alone” was a seminal book from 2000. I think of it as a modern day “Democracy in America” by de ...

Bowling Alone, the book by the excellent sociologist Robert Putnam, became a best-seller and has stuck around the zeitgeist somewhat. Putnam blamed technology and its atomizing effects — and he ...

Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; member, National Academy of Sciences; fellow, British Academy; past president, American Political Science ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image released by Putnam shows “The Big Empty” by Robert Crais. (Putnam via AP) This image released ...

Harvard’s Robert Putnam first identified the impending crisis 25 years ago in a landmark essay titled “Bowling Alone.” In the essay, which later yielded a popular book of the same name ...

On Saturday, January 25, from 1-4 pm, C.H. Booth Library will host a Global Community Engagement Day. The special event will ...

In other states, as well as in Massachusetts, the experiences of community life, family life, and life surrounding a church or a synagogue have changed dramatically. Just as people change jobs much ...

Host Dr. Robert Putnam (Harvard Professor and author of BOWLING ALONE) spotlights innovative leaders and children, working together in nine communities, who struggle to create and inspire ...