@article {11025, title = {"State Formation and Social Policy in the United States"}, journal = {American Behavioral Scientist}, volume = {35}, number = {4/5}, year = {1992}, note = {March/June Reprinted in The United States of America III, in the International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, edited by Alan Ware. Aldershot, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1997.}, pages = {559-584}, author = {Theda Skocpol} }