Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. Professor Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world's highest accolades for a political scientist. Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government.
He has written fourteen books, translated into twenty languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. His previous book, Making Democracy Work, was praised by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber." Both Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone are among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide in the last half century.
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
發表於2025-01-31
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似乎無論是不是涉及中國,democracy這個詞都會成為最大的標題黨,什麼Capitalism Without Democracy, Accountability Without Democracy,不一而足。要是認真,你就輸瞭——真去翻書,纔會知道democracy基本屬於躺著也中槍的級彆,他們討論的基本不乾民主什麼事兒。同樣地,帶...
評分今天看完瞭從政治學角度研究社會資本問題的名著---《使民主運轉起來》,感覺還不錯,不光大量的調查資料讓人敬佩和信服,但就對問題的分析來說也是非常精闢的。這本書雖然翻譯的不是很好,但還是非常容易理解的,得齣的結論也很有說服力。本書的緣起是作者抓住意大利開始地...
評分初看帕特南教授所著《使民主運轉起來:現代意大利的公民傳統》的書名便覺得驚訝,一是因為“民主”一詞在中國擁有與西方不同的意義,我不知讀一本西方學者所著關於“民主”的書是否有助於瞭解中國政治或是國際關係;驚訝原因之二是與“民主”相對應的不是美國或者英國,而是地...
評分 評分帕特南作為有名的政治學傢,對於“公民社會”“公民參與”這樣的話題是情有獨鍾的。他的《獨自打保齡球》就描繪齣美國人對於他們一嚮熱衷的保齡球這樣的社團活動的熱情似乎正在下降瞭。人與人橫嚮關係的疏遠一定程度上動搖瞭穩固的社會資本,對於以此為基石的美國共和民主政治...
圖書標籤: 政治學 democracy 社會學 政治 politics CivilSociety 比較政治 social-capital
Wondering how comparative politics research has descended into downright mediocrity from there.
評分精緻,但讀後沒有太大的衝擊力。
評分因研究civic society細細讀瞭兩天。研究political culture的經典範本,討論civic traditions對institutional performance的作用,理論格局和實證的對接做的很好,但似乎並沒有排除economic development對civic associations的影響,最後落迴到communitarianism時也不能論證liberalism就不會帶來civic bonds.
評分it's such an honor to have witnessed a history like that and figured something more than history out of it.though the binary opposition could sometimes went too far to be persuasive. an excellent research of how participant observation could be done.
評分# 如果不是對civic tradition感興趣,這本書可以花三個小時就讀完。經驗材料的編排以當時的標準來看算精細,但是給人感覺是硬套上去的,講曆史淵源沒寫齣活潑勁兒來。這本書還是比較少強調civic tradition對於發展和民主起作用的conditionality,不過civic tradition的幾個要點,平等、包容、替彆人考慮等等,確實就是民主得以運轉的關鍵。現代社會不一定意味著community到society,作者試圖說明在現代社會裏可以建立基於自由平等關係的community。我很喜歡這個理想,今後可以自稱communitarian liberals,哈哈。
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