CRITICAL MASS

Robert Putnam's Research on Diversity

Do highly diverse societies encourage tolerance, or do they cultivate distrust and isolation? That is the question Harvard's Robert D. Putnam tackles in his latest research, and his findings have raised more than a few eyebrows. In the short run, Putnam writes in the June issue of the journal Scandinavian Political Studies, "immigration and ethnic diversity tend...

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