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Robert D. Putnam: For a Meaningful Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Thomas R. Rochon
Thomas R. Rochon
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Executive director of the Graduate Record Examinations Program at the Educational Testing Service. He is on leave of absence as professor in the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University, where he was formerly dean. His books include Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing Values (Princeton, 1998) and Mobilizing for Peace: The European Antinuclear Movements (Princeton, 1988).
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In an era in which some political scientists are concerned that an emphasis on formalism has weakened the realworld commitment and impact of the discipline, APSA President Robert D. Putnam has led the way in melding research and action. Putnam's research has been driven by attention to the big, basic questions of governance: How do national traditions of ideological style affect political decision making? What determines the success or failure of political institutions? What domestic political factors help or hinder efforts by political leaders to reach cooperative international agreements?

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ASSOCIATION NEWS
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 701 - 739
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© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

* This essay draws in part from my entry on Robert Putnam in Glenn Utter and Charles Lockhart, eds., American Political Scientists (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993).