The beliefs of politicians: ideology, conflict, and democracy in Britain and Italy (Yale studies in political science)

Politics & Social Sciences

Robert D. Putnam

Politics & Government

Yale University Press

Shows how changes in work, family structure, age, women's roles, and other factors have caused people to become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and democratic structures--and how they may reconnect.

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

History

Americas

Simon&Schuster

It is a notable irony that as democracy replaces other forms of governing throughout the world, citizens of the most established and prosperous democracies (the United States and Canada, Western European nations, and Japan) increasingly report dissatisfaction and frustration with their governments. Here, some of the most influential political scientists at work today examine why this is so in a volume unique in both its publication of original data and its conclusion that low public confidence in democratic leaders and institutions is a function of actual performance, changing expectations, and the role of information. The culmination of research projects directed by Robert Putnam through the Trilateral Commission and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, these papers present new data that allow more direct comparisons across national borders and more detailed pictures of trends within countries than previously possible. They show that citizen disaffection in the Trilateral democracies is not the result of frayed social fabric, economic insecurity, the end of the Cold War, or public cynicism. Rather, the contributors conclude, the trouble lies with governments and politics themselves. The sources of the problem include governments' diminished capacity to act in an interdependent world and a decline in institutional performance, in combination with new public expectations and uses of information that have altered the criteria by which people judge their governments. Although the authors diverge in approach, ideological affinity, and interpretation, they adhere to a unified framework and confine themselves to the last quarter of the twentieth century. This focus--together with the wealth of original research results and the uniform strength of the individual chapters--sets the volume above other efforts to address the important and increasingly international question of public dissatisfaction with democratic

Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries?

Susan J. Pharr

Princeton University Press

Bowling Alone

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Bowling Alone: Revised And Updated

Simon & Schuster Audio

The Upswing

'Putnam's book speaks for the many millions who don't think the way zealots do' Guardian 
The Upswing is Robert D. Putnam's brilliant analysis of economic, social, cultural and political trends from the Gilded Age to the present, showing how America went from an individualistic 'I' society to a more communitarian 'We' society and then back again, and how we can all learn from that experience. 
In the late nineteenth century, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarised and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However, as the twentieth century dawned, America became - slowly, unevenly, but steadily - more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society 'on the upswing, ' more focused on responsibilities to each other and less focused on narrow self-interest. Over the course of the 1960s, however, these trends reversed once again, leading to today's disarray. 
In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, Putnam and Romney Garrett draw on inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, creating once again a society based on community. Engaging, revelatory and timely, this is Putnam's most ambitious work yet, with a relevance right across the anglophone world. It is an unmissable contribution to the debate about where we want society to go.

The Upswing: How We Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

Shaylyn Romney Garrett

Swift Press

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Chinese Edition)

China University of Political Science and Law Press

階級世代：窮小孩與富小孩的機會不平等。貧富差距如何影響窮小孩與富小孩的選擇機會？

Our kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Chinese Edition) by Robert D. Putnam

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