What is Robert D. Putnam?
{{Infobox academic | name = Robert D. Putnam | image = Robert Putnam, lecturing.jpg | alt = | caption = Putnam in 2006 | birth_name = Robert David Putnam | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|01|09}} | birth_place = [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], [[New York (state)|New York]], US | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = Bob Putnam<ref>{{cite journal |last=Fabbrini |first=Sergio |author-link=Sergio Fabbrini |year=2011 |title=Robert D. Putnam Between Italy and the United States |url=https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro/papers/italianpolitics.pdf |journal=Bulletin of Italian Politics |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=391–399 |issn=1759-3077 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803151931/https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro/papers/italianpolitics.pdf |archive-date=August 3, 2018}}</ref> | residence = | occupation = | known_for = | spouse = {{marriage|Rosemary|1963}} | children = | parents = | awards = {{unbulleted list | Commander of the [[Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity]] (2004) | [[Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science|Skytte Prize]] (2006) | [[National Humanities Medal]] (2013)}} | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | [[Swarthmore College]] | [[Yale University]]}} | thesis_title = Politicians and Politics<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Putnam |first=Robert David |year=1970 |title=Politicians and Politics: Themes in British and Italian Elite Political Culture |degree=PhD |location=New Haven, Connecticut |publisher=Yale University Press |oclc=83494112}}</ref> | thesis_year = 1970 | school_tradition = [[Communitarianism]] | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | era = | discipline = {{hlist | [[Political science]] | [[so