State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three co...

In this incisive account, a prize-winning social scientist offers deep insights into the changing...

The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations:...

From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women parti...

This series publishes comparative research that seeks to explain important, crossnational domesti...

'American democracy is in many ways more vital than ever before. Advocacy groups proliferate and ...

Some of the most important questions of the social sciences in the twentieth century have been po...

Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlig...

In the opening pages of thispowerful examination of American politics, Theda Skocpol reveals a ...

This volume places the welfare debates of the 1980s in the context of past patterns of U.S. polic...

Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in...

Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national deba...