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...project, which is still in the formative stages, will examine American democratic institutions and society, compare them with parallel foreign institutions and suggest reforms as they are needed, Putnam says...
...part of this program, Putnam himself has been travelling to Moscow and throughout Eastern Europe to help ease the transition...
...Kennedy School of Government, Dean Robert D. Putnam says it is time to bring that debate to the forefront of the school's agenda. According to Putnam, it is way past time that political academics take a serious and critical look at the structure and goals of American democracy...
...political system has been unresponsive to the major changes in America and the world in recent decades, Putnam says. Economic life has become more international, women have come to assume very different social roles, and elections have become ruled by the "9.8 second soundbite," the dean explains. But still, he adds, the political structure operates under assumptions that have long since become obsolete...
...changes are very similar in magnitude to those at the end of the 1800s, and like the Progressive Period around the turn of the century, the U.S. is ready for a period of intense reform of its political institutions," Putnam says...