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	Theda Skocpol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theda Skocpol (born May 4, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan) is a sociologist and political scientist at Harvard University, presently serving as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
		Skocpol's undergraduate education was at Michigan State University (B.A. She went on to Harvard (Ph.D.), where she studied with Barrington Moore Jr.
		She has been married to Bill Skocpol, an experimental physicist at Boston College, since 1967, with whom she has a son, Michael Allen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theda_Skocpol (750 words)

	Eirinn Larsen: Feminist Scholars define Maternalism and Maternalist Policy
		Skocpol, on the other hand, explains that theories stressing the strength of labor are insufficient to explain social policies aimed at mothers and female workers as opposed to industrial workers and their dependants.
		Skocpol's argumentation shows that she, in contrast to both Gordon and Mink, chooses to interpret women's reformers use of the word "race" in two ways, both in situations where it was used in the meaning of all human beings and where it was used in the meaning whites versus people of color.
		Theda Skocpol is among the scholars who has commented on Koven and Michel's argumentation about the connections between the power of women's welfare agency and the strength of the state.
	www.ub.uib.no /elpub/1996/h/506002/eirinn/eirinn-Feminist-2.html (9938 words)

	Paul Starr, review of Boomerang, by Theda Skocpol.
		Skocpol's discussion of the Clinton plan itself and the reasoning behind it is generally accurate and even sympathetic.
		Skocpol's narrative skips the period between the 1992 election and presidential inauguration, but the transition was the time when health reform rose to the top of Clinton's domestic agenda.
		Skocpol believes that the administration brought unnecessary regulatory complexity upon itself by deciding to finance coverage through a mandate on employers to pay a percentage of insurance premiums rather than through a payroll tax.
	www.princeton.edu /~starr/articles/cs-boom.html (2365 words)

	Extensions
		Using some of Skocpol's work as illustration, I shall argue that explicit and careful methodology is necessary for comparison to have civilizing consequences, what these civilizing consequences can be in the context of higher education and in the context of the never-ending support the political realm seeks from the academic.
		Skocpol favors the last of these types, which is characterized by controlled comparisons of macro phenomena by using, for instance, Mill's method of agreement and method of difference, explaining well-defined outcomes or patterns, always exploring alternative explanations, not using a preconceived general model.
		Skocpol is certainly aware of this but to argue that causal analysis as such is therefore impossible would be to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/extensions/fall99/raadschelders.html (2610 words)

	Yale Law School \| @YLS \| Prof. Theda Skocpol to Give Storrs Lectures on "Civic Engagement in American Democracy" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, will deliver the Storrs Lectures at YLS on Monday, March 11, Tuesday, March 12, and Thursday, March 14.
		Skocpol's description will be augmented by illustrations and pictures of the membership ribbon-badges that she collects as a hobby.
		Skocpol is a political scientist and sociologist, and she is currently president-elect of the American Political Science Association.
	www.law.yale.edu /outside/html/Public_Affairs/213/yls_article.htm (524 words)

	Faculty of Arts & Sciences: News and Events
		"Theda Skocpol has an extraordinary record of accomplishment as a scholar and teacher," said William C. Kirby, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
		Skocpol is the author of eight books and eight edited volumes on comparative and American politics, as well as numerous scholarly articles.
		Skocpol, who earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard, has received several major academic awards, including the J. David Greenstone Award for the "best book on politics and history," the Graduate Society Medal of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association, and the Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Political Science Association.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /home/news_and_events/releases/skocpol_06032005.html (612 words)

	Harvard Scholar Traces Failure of Clinton Health Reform Plan
		Skocpol recommends that Democrats and public intellectuals who care about civic life and the needs of most working Americans converse with Americans from all walks of life and forge new alliances; speak about social justice, moral values, and the potentially positive role of government; and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of programs that promote equity.
		Skocpol connects the events surrounding the health care reform debate with historical trends, broad political movements, and the behavior of the executive and legislative institutions involved.
		Theda Skocpol, "Health Politics and the Waning of US Democracy at Century's End," at the Workshop on "Where Are We in American Political Development?" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 14, 1995.
	www.rwjf.org /reports/grr/023490.htm (3279 words)

	States and Social Revolutions : A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Essentially, Skocpol argues that all of these countries were impacted by their international situation and/or conflict.
		Such reforms would deal with agricultural production, taxation, gathering of a military, etc. According to Skocpol, one of the key causes of a social revolution is that the elite classes in the countries where the revolution occurs will be antagonistic to the government's attempts at reform.
		Skocpol ignores Czar Nicholas' personal incompetence, and the difference between his ruling style and that of his predecessors.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:0521294991 (992 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Theda Skocpol rejects the prevailing view, which lays most of the blame at the feet of Hillary Rodham Clinton, offering the real culprit as something called "Reagan's revenge." She believes that the tax cuts of the Reagan years gutted a host of once-effective federal programs, generating widespread public mistrust of government.
		Skocpol's incisive work wends the reader through the course that was "the rise and resounding demise of the Health Security effort." Boomerang is not an explanation of health care reform.
		Skocpol begins our journey with a proclamation: "The presentation and decisive defeat of the Clinton plan in 1993-94 was a pivotal moment in the history of the U.S. governmental and political system." Ostensibly, the American political landscape is now irrevocably changed.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393039706 (1084 words)

	Theda Skocpol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Theda_Skocpol.html (139 words)

	Skocpol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Skocpol’s first book, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge University Press, 1979), won the 1979 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1980 American Sociological Association Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship.
		At Harvard, Skocpol is coordinating a major research project on civic engagement in American democracy, considering the rise and development of voluntary associations from 1790 to the present.
		Theda Skocpol has been married since 1967 to Bill Skocpol, an experimental physicist who teaches at Boston University.
	www.gov.harvard.edu /Faculty/Bios/Skocpol.htm (380 words)

	WOOSTERbk.pm6
		Theda Skocpol, a Harvard sociologist, is also a writer whom both friends and foes of welfare ought to read.
		Skocpol is a social democrat who would prefer the United States to have welfare programs as large and intrusive as the wealthier nations of Europe.
		While Skocpol's conclusions will not persuade foes of the welfare state to change their minds, her dispassionate and thoughtful analysis of the origins of American social policy ensures that Social Policy in the United States ought to be read by anyone interested in welfare reform.
	www.reason.com /9601/WOOSTERbk.html (1337 words)

	Amherst College Commencement 2004: Honorands: Theda Skocpol
		Recognized since the beginning of her career as a major presence in the fields of historical sociology and comparative politics, Theda Skocpol has shown that she cannot be contained within any single, closely defined area of expertise.
		She is committed to enhancing public understanding of complex issues, appearing frequently on radio and television, and writing for publications appealing to the general public.
		Skocpol is currently involved in a research project on civic engagement in America, considering the rise and development of voluntary associations from 1790 to the present.
	www.amherst.edu /commencement/2004/honorands/skocpol.html (345 words)

	Institute for America's Future
		Skocpol argues that, even while progressives defend programs for the oldest, the youngest, and the poorest, now is the time to advance new policies to enhance security and opportunity for the "missing middle" -- the average working parents of modest means.
		Skocpol concludes that the time is ripe to end the polarized and fragmented debates of today.
		Theda Skocpol is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University and author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government (Norton), among other books, and co-editor (with Stan Greenberg) of The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics.
	www.commondreams.org /news2000/0301-07.htm (457 words)

	USIA, U.S. Society and Values, January 1997 - Theda Skocpol and David Kuo, "Social Responsibility in America"
		SKOCPOL: Yes, especially as the role of women and men in the family and in the workforce changed.
		SKOCPOL: I want to direct our attention to what's been missing in American compassion either through the private or the public sector in the last several decades, because I think we sometimes focus on what's there and what it isn't accomplishing.
		SKOCPOL: We often imagine in this country that we could return to a situation where there are a few poor families in the community and the community pitches in to give them some tough love -- give them a little bit of help, get them on their feet, and everything will be fine.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itsv/0197/ijse/thedakuo.htm (5426 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Harvard sociologist Skocpol has written an astute book that offers a diagnosis of the problem and a prescription for correcting what she convincingly characterizes as the unconscionable treatment of the middle class.
		In her final chapter, Skocpol proposes programs that could end the damage caused by the neglect of working-class families, urging advocates of social support programs to go on the offensive with bold new proposals.
		Skocpol takes a thoughtful look into a system that aids the very rich and the very poor often at the expense of the forgotten working class.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393321134 (1254 words)

	Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions
		The fact that Skocpol considers China to be a case of a revolution not in a colonial country is interesting to Maoism.
		Although Skocpol mentions the Mexican Revolution, we would say that it serves mainly as a negative example and counter-argument to her theories.
		Although Skocpol is correct in handling the French revolution as a matter of an old imperial state in a typical geo-political collision with another great power, we at MIM attach greater importance to Marx's theories of surplus-value and accumulation taken up in Lenin's theory of imperialism.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/bookstore/books/violence/skocpol.html (1408 words)

	The Missing Middle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Skocpol draws us into the history of this startling trend and reveals the dangers of the increasingly simplistic and moralistic stands being taken by our politicians.
		Skocpol suggests new ways to think about social policy, targeting not merely those at the extremes of our society but reinvigorating the strength, dignity, and political participation of the working men and women who are the foundation of the American family and the American economy.
		Theda Skocpol is Victor S. Thomas professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University and the author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government (Norton) and Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States.
	www.keystoneresearch.org /books/missing.html (509 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: States and Social Revolutions : A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Skocpol's discussion in the book is based on Marxist class struggle revolution, combined with the consensus theories which explain revolution as response to disequilibum of social system.
		Skocpol then exploited the transformation process of the peasantry from local levels into a collective force capable of striking out against its oppressors by answering first, the relation of peasantry to the field of power which surrounds it, and second, class structure.
		For the first question, Skocpol did a great job by analyzing the degrees and kinds of solidarity of peasant communities, the degrees of peasant autonomy from direct day-to-day supervision and control by landlords and their agents, and finally the relaxation of state coercive sanctions against peasants revolts.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521294991?v=glance (2843 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Politics
		Skocpol is especially interested in fraternal orders such as the Elks, Masons and Odd Fellows, which she depicts as cross-class organizations that united local elites and ordinary workers.
		Skocpol argues that membership organizations of all kinds have declined in the past quarter-century, replaced by advocacy groups that do not encourage membership participation.
		Diminished Democracy suffers from Skocpol's tendency to lump wildly different kinds of groups under the rubric of "membership organizations." Surely the decline of the American labor movement cannot be explained by the same factors that have caused the drop in the number of Elks clubs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A49669-2003Jun12?language=printer (1512 words)

	Theda Skocpol—Religion and Culture: Meeting the Challenge of Pluralism, a Ford Foundation project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Theda Skocpol is an expert in how democratic leadership is being redefined in America.
		Skocpol has demonstrated that in America's move from voluntary membership associations, including many religion-related, to professionally run advocacy groups and nonprofit agencies, the nation has gained the voices speaking for women and minorities, yet lost fellowship across class lines.
		Skocpol was President elect of the American Political Science Association, 2001–2002.
	www.religionandpluralism.org /ThedaSkocpol.htm (428 words)

	Books on Theda Skocpol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Skocpol shows how she and other scholars have used ideas about states and societies to identify the particular types of regimes that are susceptible to the growth of revolutionary movements and vulnerable to transfers of state power to revolutionary challengers.
		Skocpol dispels the myth that Americans are inherently hostile to social spending and suggests why President Clinton's health care agenda was so quickly attacked despite the support of most Americans for his goals.
		In the opening pages of this powerful examination of American politics, Theda Skocpol reveals a curious pattern: Our politicians argue over programs for the very poor or tax cuts for the very rich, and they worry over the precarious security of our longer-living grandparents and the educational neglect and corresponding bleak future of our children.
	b00ks.bankhacker.com /Theda+Skocpol (1144 words)

	Alibris: Theda Skocpol
		Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.
		Laws regulating the industrial labor process, pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and measures to educate and ensure the welfare of children were enacted in many industrializing capitalist nations from the 1850s to the 1920s.
		Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning 1979 book States and Social Revolutions, updates her arguments about social revolutions.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Theda_Skocpol (926 words)

	A Notable Dean
		The appointment of Thomas professor of government and sociology Theda Skocpol as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), announced June 3 by Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby, was front-page news in the Boston Globe.
		Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75, denied tenure in 1980, filed a grievance that was ultimately decided in her favor by President Derek C. Bok.
		Upon her appointment, Skocpol declared GSAS “a vital part” of FAS and of Harvard.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/070513.html (172 words)

	Theda Skocpol lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, will deliver the University’s fourth Featherman Lecture on Public Policy on October 4 at 2 p.m.
		Skocpol will present “Citizen Participation: Then and Now,” which will address the causes of the decline in civic participation in the United States over the past several decades.
		Skocpol is currently working on a major study of civic engagement and voluntary associations in the United States from its founding to the present.
	www.temple.edu /temple_times/9-30-99/lecture.html (267 words)

	Harvard University Press/Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
		Theda Skocpol is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.
		But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens.
		Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/SKOPRO.html (385 words)

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