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Robert D. Putnam

1941 - Today

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Robert David Putnam (born January 9, 1941) is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Putnam developed the influential two-level game theory that assumes international agreements will only be successfully brokered if they also result in domestic benefits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert D. Putnam has received more than 690,063 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Robert D. Putnam is the 23rd most popular political scientist (down from 18th in 2019), the 3,401st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,517th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Political Scientist.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

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  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Robert D. Putnam ranks 23 out of 46. Before him are John Mearsheimer, Muhammad Asad, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Ilan Pappé, Arend Lijphart, and Norman Finkelstein. After him are William Graham Sumner, Hayranidil Kadın, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Karl Deutsch, Leonard Hobhouse, and Rahime Perestu Sultan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Robert D. Putnam ranks 211. Before him are Edmund Stoiber, Prince William of Gloucester, Leslie Lamport, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Wilson Pickett, and Denys Arcand. After him are Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, Walid Muallem, Percy Sledge, Sonny Landham, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, and Leonid Kizim.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert D. Putnam ranks 3,401 out of 20,380. Before him are Marlee Matlin (1965), Paul Castellano (1915), Seth Rollins (1986), Mick Mars (1951), Jack Cassidy (1927), and Jeff Hanneman (1964). After him are Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Horace McCoy (1897), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Melissa Sue Anderson (1962), Vernor Vinge (1944), and Earnie Shavers (1944).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Robert D. Putnam ranks 9. Before him are Harold Lasswell (1902), Gene Sharp (1928), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Joseph Nye (1937), John Mearsheimer (1947), and Norman Finkelstein (1953). After him are William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert Keohane (1941), Graham Allison (1940), Sidney Verba (1932), Cass Sunstein (1954), and James Flynn (1934).

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