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The research under-pinning this book is a product of the five-year, £5m collaboration between the University of Manchester and Harvard, headed by Professor Putnam: Social Change: a Harvard-Manchester Initiative (SCHMi.). ‘Age of Obama’ is the first in a series of books examining different aspect of major contemporary social changes, which will include U.S.-U.K. comparative studies of religion, inequality, and the social impact of changes to the way we work.

SCHMi is based at the Institute for Social Change at the University of Manchester, directed by Professor Fieldhouse. www.manchester.ac.uk/socialchange/

For more information on Professor Putnam’s research on civic engagement, visit the website of the Saguaro Seminar which he runs, at www.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro

The Age of Obama is a forthcoming book to be published late 2009.

While based on highly rigorous research, the Age of Obama is a highly readable book.

A sample chapter – covering the difference in minority politics between Britain and America –
is available here.