Robert Putnam Receives Talcott Parsons Prize

Former Center Director Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus, at Harvard Kennedy School, is the recipient of the Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for distinguished and original contributions to the social sciences. First awarded in 1974, the Talcott Parsons Prize was established to honor the noted sociologist and former president of the Academy. Putnam is only the second political scientist to receive this award, after Robert Dahl of Yale University, in 1977.