@book {10885, title = {The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism}, year = {2007}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton, NJ}, editor = {Theda Skocpol and Paul Pierson} } @book {10870, title = {What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality}, year = {2006}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton, NJ}, abstract = {From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations--self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to members, enacted group rituals, and engaged in community service. Even more than whites did, African Americans embraced this type of association; indeed, fraternal lodges rivaled churches as centers of black community life in cities, towns, and rural areas alike. Using an unprecedented variety of secondary and primary sources--including old documents, pictures, and ribbon-badges found in eBay auctions--this book tells the story of the most visible African American fraternal associations. The authors demonstrate how African American fraternal groups played key roles in the struggle for civil rights and racial integration. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, white legislatures passed laws to outlaw the use of important fraternal names and symbols by blacks. But blacks successfully fought back. Employing lawyers who in some cases went on to work for the NAACP, black fraternalists took their cases all the way to the Supreme Court, which eventually ruled in their favor. At the height of the modern Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, they marched on Washington and supported the lawsuits through lobbying and demonstrations that finally led to legal equality. This unique book reveals a little-known chapter in the story of civic democracy and racial equality in America.}, url = {http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8267.html}, author = {Theda Skocpol and Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz} } @book {11033, title = {Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn}, year = {2005}, publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation}, organization = {Russell Sage Foundation}, address = {New York}, editor = {Theda Skocpol and Lawrence R. Jacobs} } @book {10887, title = {American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality}, year = {2004}, note = {American Political Science Association Co-authored with other members of the Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy}, address = {Washington D.C.}, author = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10869, title = {Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life}, year = {2003}, note = {Rothbaum Series}, publisher = {University of Oklahoma Press}, organization = {University of Oklahoma Press}, address = {Norman, OK}, abstract = {Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of nonprofit groups have been launched in recent times, but most are run by professionals who lobby Congress or deliver social services to clients. What will happen to U.S. democracy if participatory groups and social movements wither, while civic involvement becomes one more occupation rather than every citizen{\textquoteright}s right and duty? In Diminished Democracy, Theda Skocpol shows that this decline in public involvement has not always been the case in this country-and how, by understanding the causes of this change, we might reverse it. }, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Diminished-Democracy-Membership-Management-American/dp/0806136278}, author = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10867, title = {The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy}, year = {2000}, note = {A Century Foundation Book}, publisher = {W. W. Norton}, organization = {W. W. Norton}, address = {New York}, abstract = {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. But, with the spotlight on the youngest, the oldest, the richest, and the poorest, rarely do we find policies concerned with average working men and women of modest means, those the author terms the "missing middle." Skocpol draws us into the history of this disturbing trend and reveals the repercussions of the increasingly simplistic and moralistic stands being taken by our politicians. Taking lessons from the root causes of this shift, she presents a compelling case for family-oriented populism and identifies the bold reforms needed to revitalize American democracy.}, url = {http://www.flipkart.com/b/books/missing-middle-theda-skocpol-richard-book-0393321134}, author = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10884, title = {Civic Engagement in American Democracy}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Brookings Institution Press and Russell Sage Foundation}, organization = {Brookings Institution Press and Russell Sage Foundation}, address = {Washington DC}, editor = {Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina} } @book {10883, title = {Democracy, Revolution, and History}, year = {1998}, note = {Festschrift for Barrington Moore, Jr.}, publisher = {Cornell University Press}, organization = {Cornell University Press}, address = {Ithaca, NY} } @book {10886, title = {Lessons from History: Building a Movement for America{\textquoteright}s Children}, year = {1997}, publisher = {The Children{\textquoteright}s Partnership}, organization = {The Children{\textquoteright}s Partnership}, address = {Washington DC and Santa Monica, CA}, author = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10882, title = {The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics}, year = {1997}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, organization = {Yale University Press}, address = {New Haven, CT}, editor = {Theda Skocpol and Stanley B. Greenberg} } @book {10881, title = {States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies}, year = {1996}, publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press}, organization = {Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press}, address = {New York and Princeton, NJ}, editor = {Theda Skocpol and Dietrich Rueschemeyer} } @book {10866, title = {Boomerang: Clinton{\textquoteright}s Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics}, year = {1996}, note = {Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. (Paperback edition with new Afterword)}, publisher = {W.W. Norton}, organization = {W.W. Norton}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Boomerang-Clintons-Security-Government-Politics/dp/0393039706}, author = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10863, title = {State and Party in America{\textquoteright}s New Deal}, year = {1995}, publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, organization = {University of Wisconsin Press}, address = {Madison, WI}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/State-Party-Americas-New-Deal/dp/0299147649}, author = {Theda Skocpol and Finegold, Kenneth} } @book {10862, title = {Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective}, year = {1995}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton, NJ}, url = {http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5639.html}, author = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10880, title = {American Society and Politics: Institutional, Historical, and Theoretical Perspectives}, year = {1994}, publisher = {McGraw-Hill}, organization = {McGraw-Hill}, address = {New York}, editor = {Theda Skocpol and John L. Campbell} } @book {10861, title = {Social Revolutions in the Modern World}, year = {1994}, note = {Japanese edition by Iwanami, 1997.}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge and New York}, abstract = {In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning States and Social Revolutions (CUP, 1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions. How are we to understand recent revolutionary upheavals in countries across the globe? Why have social revolutions happened in some countries, but not in others that seem similar? 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. }, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Revolutions-Cambridge-Studies-Comparative-Politics/dp/0521409381}, author = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10860, title = {Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States}, year = {1992}, note = {Winner of five major scholarly awards (listed above). Spanish edition by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, 1996.}, publisher = {The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, organization = {The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Protecting-Soldiers-Mothers-Political-Origins/dp/067471766X}, author = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10879, title = {The Politics of Social Policy in the United States}, year = {1988}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton, NJ}, editor = {Theda Skocpol and Margaret Weir and Ann Shola Orloff} } @book {10878, title = {Bringing the State Back In}, year = {1985}, note = {Inaugural volume of the SSRC Committee on States and Social Structures.}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {New York and Cambridge}, editor = {Theda Skocpol and Peter Evans and Dietrich Rueschemeyer} } @book {10877, title = {Vision and Method in Historical Sociology}, year = {1984}, note = {Japanese edition by Bokutakusha, 1995. Turkish edition by Tarih Vakfi Yayinlari, 1999.}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {New York and Cambridge}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Method-Historical-Sociology-Skocpol/dp/0521297249/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\&ie=UTF8\&qid=1305135493\&sr=1-1}, editor = {Theda Skocpol} } @book {10725, title = {States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China}, year = {1979}, note = {Winner of two major scholarly awards (listed above). Cited as among the most influential books in both Political Science (New Handbook of Political Science, 1996, p. 32) and Sociology (Contemporary Sociology, May 1996). Italian edition by Il Mulino, 1981. Korean edition (pirated translation), 1980. French edition by Fayard, 1985. Spanish edition by Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico, 1985. Portuguese edition by Presenca, 1985. Greek edition by Katarti Editions, 2003. Turkish edition, 2004. Chinese edition, Shanghai People{\textquoteright}s Publishing House, 2005. Croatian edition, Politicka Kultura, forthcoming.}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {New York and Cambridge}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/States-Social-Revolutions-Comparative-Analysis/dp/0521294991}, author = {Theda Skocpol} }