Across her career and dozens of publications, many of them prize winners, Skocpol has tackled various questions about political transformations, civic participation and social movements, and public policy making. Her first book compared the causes and outcomes of social revolutions the modernizing world, and subsequent projects have focused on U.S. state building, the emergence and long term transformation of US citizens associations, US social and health policies in historical and cross-national perspective, and, most recently, right wing radicalization in and around the Republican Party. Recent studies have examined the Tea Party, the Koch network, and the network underpinnings of Trumpism. Skocpol works with research teams that include graduate and undergraduate students to create original data sets and fresh hypotheses about the organizational underpinnings of such phenomena. She and her research partners present findings to both academic and public audiences.
Contact
617/496-0966
skocpol@fas.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street
CGIS Knafel Building, Room 416
Subfields
American Politics | Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Civil Society and Social Movements | Democracy | Gender | Health Policy and Bioethics | Institutions | Non-Governmental Organizations | Parties, Campaigns & Elections | Political Geography | Public Policy | Religion in Politics | Social Policy & the Welfare State | State-Society Relations | State & Local Politics
Research Methods
Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
Europe | United States