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Academic

RankDistinguished

As of2024 · CV

DepartmentHarvard Government

UniversityHarvard

FieldPolitical Science

ORCID0000-0002-3866-8108

Totals

Publications151

Citations15,616

h-index42 · OpenAlex citations of CV works

Citations per year in post306.2

Years in post51 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count88 of 151

Share58%

Positions

2022 Frances Perkins Fellow, American Academy…2022–2022

Member, Scholars Council, Library of Congress2019–2023

A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell Univer…2015–2024

Co-founder and Director, Scholars Strategy Ne…2009–

Senior Advisor in the Social Sciences, Radcli…2006–2008

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Scien…2005–2007

and 11 more

Top venues 55 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 47 more hold at least one.

The American Prospect9

The New York Times8

Studies in American Political Development6

Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law5

Perspectives on Politics4

PS Political Science & Politics4

The Hill4

American Political Science Review3

Publications per year

Works this academic published in each year, by the year each work appeared; an undated work is in no year, and a work two colleagues wrote counts for each of them. The kind, works and year filters decide which works are here at all.

Citations per year

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Publications 151 works

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Year	Title	Venue	Kind	Citations
1985	Bringing the State Back In	Cambridge University Press eBooks	edited volume	3,437
1992	Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States	Harvard University Press eBooks	book	2,412
2012	The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism	Oxford University Press eBooks	book	1,898
1984	Vision and Method in Historical Sociology	Cambridge University Press eBooks	edited volume	1,028
1988	The Politics of Social Policy in the United States	—	edited volume	957
2003	Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life	—	book	914
1994	Social Revolutions in the Modern World	Cambridge University Press eBooks	book	549
2000	A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States	American Political Science Review	article	495
2016	The Koch Network and Republican Party Extremism	Perspectives on Politics	article	420
1995	The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium	World Politics	article	313
1995	Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective	Princeton University Press eBooks	book	239
1999	“Advocates without Members: The Recent Transformation of American Civic Life”	—	article	237
1993	Women’s Associations and the Enactment of Mothers’ Pensions in the United States	American Political Science Review	article	173
2004	Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy	Perspectives on Politics	article	161
2016	Business Associations, Conservative Networks, and the Ongoing Republican War Over Medicaid Expansion	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	158
1996	Unravelling from Above	The American Prospect	article	130
1993	America’s First Social Security System: The Expansion of Benefits for Civil War Veterans	Political Science Quarterly	article	128
1996	Boomerang: Clinton’s Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics	DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)	book	126
2001	The Rush to Organize: Explaining Associational Formation in the United States, 1860s-1920s	American Journal of Political Science	article	121
1999	How Americans Became Civic	—	article	99
1997	The New Politics of U.S. Health Policy	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	93
1992	State Formation and Social Policy in the United States	American Behavioral Scientist	article	88
2006	What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality	Princeton University Press eBooks	book	76
1995	State and Party in America’s New Deal	The American Historical Review	book	76
2010	Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know	RePEc: Research Papers in Economics	book	74
1990	Explaining New Deal Labor Policy	American Political Science Review	article	68
2000	The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy	—	book	66
1997	The Tocqueville Problem: Civic Engagement in American Democracy	Social Science History	article	65
2005	Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	—	edited volume	60
1999	Associations without Members	The American Prospect	article	59
1991	Gender and the Origins of Modern Social Policies in Britain and the United States	Studies in American Political Development	article	57
2002	Will 9/11 and the War on Terror Revitalize American Civic Democracy?	PS Political Science & Politics	article	54
1997	The G.I. Bill and U.S. Social Policy, Past and Future	Social Philosophy and Policy	article	53
1998	Democracy, Revolution, and History	Foreign Affairs	edited volume	51
2019	Resist, Persist, and Transform: The Emergence and Impact of Grassroots Resistance Groups Opposing the Trump Presidency	Mobilization An International Quarterly	article	49
1995	The Rise and Resounding Demise of the Clinton Plan	Health Affairs	article	46
2016	Introduction	PS Political Science & Politics	article	45
2018	When Political Mega-Donors Join Forces: How the Koch Network and the Democracy Alliance Influence Organized U.S. Politics on the Right and Left	Studies in American Political Development	article	41
1996	States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies	Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	edited volume	40
1993	Is the Time Finally Ripe? Health Insurance Reforms in the 1990s	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	38
2004	Organization Despite Adversity: The Origins and Development of African American Fraternal Organizations	Social Science History	article	33
2022	Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Scien…	article	30
1990	Sustainable Social Policy: Fighting Poverty Without Poverty Programs.	The American Prospect	article	30
1997	The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics	—	edited volume	29
2008	Bringing the State Back In: Retrospect and Prospect	Scandinavian Political Studies	article	23
1991	Universal Appeal: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty.	The Brookings Review	article	23
1997	America’s Voluntary Groups Thrive in a National Network	The Brookings Review	article	22
2015	Asymmetric Interest Group Mobilization and Party Coalitions in U.S. Tax Politics	Studies in American Political Development	article	21
2012	Obama and America’s Political Future. With commentaries by Larry M. Bartels, Mickey Edwards, and Suzanne Mettler	Harvard University Press eBooks	book	16
2010	The Political Challenges That May Undermine Health Reform	Health Affairs	article	16
1996	Delivering for Young Families: The Resonance of the GI Bill	The American Prospect	article	16
2004	The Narrowing of Civic Life.	The American Prospect	article	15
2005	Disconnection and Reorganization: The Transformation of Civic Life in Late 20th Century America	Studies in American Political Development	article	13
1979	States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis ofFrance, Russia, and China	Social Forces	article	13
2012	Accomplished and Embattled: Understanding Obama’s Presidency	Political Science Quarterly	article	12
2006	Restoring the Tradition of Rigor and Relevance to Political Science	PS Political Science & Politics	article	12
1995	Why I am a Historical Institutionalist	Polity	article	12
1993	Soldiers, Workers, and Mothers: Gendered Identities in Early U.S. Social Policy	—	article	10
2014	How the Scholars Strategy Network Helps Academics Gain Public Influence	Perspectives on Politics	article	9
2019	A Conversation with Theda Skocpol	Annual Review of Political Science	article	7
1995	The Aftermath of Defeat	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	7
1994	From Social Security to Health Security? Opinion and Rhetoric in U.S. Social Policymaking	PS Political Science & Politics	article	7
1994	American Society and Politics: Institutional, Historical, and Theoretical Perspectives	McGraw-Hill eBooks	edited volume	7
2010	Obama and the Transformation of U.S. Public Policy: The Struggle to Reform Health Care	Arizona State law journal	article	5
2000	Theory Tackles History	Social Science History	article	5
1999	Why I am a Historical Social Scientist	—	article	5
1994	Cultural Mythmaking as a Policy Tool: The Social Security Board and the Construction of a Social Citizenship of Self Interest	—	article	4
1992	The Narrow Vision of Today’s Experts on Social Policy	The chronicle of higher education	article	4
2022	Social Justice Campaigns and Democratic Party Gains: How Georgia’s Partisan Reformers Overtook North Carolina’s Moral Advocates	Studies in American Political Development	article	3
1994	From Social Security to Health Security?	Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law	article	3
1993	Formation de l’Etat et Politiques Sociales aux Etats-Unis	Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales	article	3
2019	Making Sense of Citizen Mobilizations against the Trump Presidency	Perspectives on Politics	article	2
1994	Welfare as We Need It	The New York Times	article	2
2012	Theda Skocpol tells Juncture why the upcoming presidential election is set to be one of the most important in US history.	Public Policy Research	article	1
1997	The Next Liberalism	The Atlantic	article	1
1996	What Tocqueville Missed	Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies	article	1
2019	Saving America Once Again: Comparing the Anti-Trump Resistance to the Tea Party	—	article	0
2011	People Like Health Reform When They Learn What It Does.	Contexts	article	0
2004	A Bad Senior Moment.	The American Prospect	article	0
2003	Down Goes Their Clout	Newsday	article	0
2002	Can Working Families Ever Win? The Political Bind	Boston Review	article	0
1997	Social Responsibility in the United States: The Current Tapestry.	—	article	0
1997	Democrats at the Crossroads	—	article	0
1996	Health Reform, By Inches	The New York Times	article	0
1994	The New Urban Poverty and U.S. Social Policy	University of Michigan Library Repository	article	0
1994	Against Evolutionism: Social Policies and American Political Development	Studies in American Political Development	article	0
1991	Analyzing National Patterns of Social Policy: A Polity-Centered Approach	—	article	0
1991	Strong Hearts, Weak Politics	Tikkun	article	0
2021	Resistance Disconnect: How Indivisible’s National Advocates and Grassroots Volunteers Have Pulled Apart—And What Could Happen Instead	The American Prospect	article	—
2020	Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance	—	edited volume	—
2020	Keep It Simple, Democrats: Job One is Making Sure All Americans Can Cast Votes This Fall	USA Today	article	—
2019	Democrats had a winning 2018 playbook. They should use it to beat Donald Trump in 2020.	USA Today	article	—
2018	Middle America Reboots Democracy	—	article	—
2018	How the Koch brothers built the most powerful rightwing group you've never heard of	—	article	—
2018	Women Are Rebuilding the Democratic Party From the Ground Up	The New Republic	article	—
2017	A Guide to Rebuilding the Democratic Party, From the Ground Up	Vox	article	—
2017	What Can (or Should) Activists Learn from the Tea Party?	The Washington Post	article	—
2017	Can Marches Become a Movement?	—	article	—
2016	Trump is Going After Health Care. Will Democrats Push Back?	The New York Times	article	—
2016	Trump Will Win or Lose. Either Way, the Koch Network Will Still Shape the Republican Party	The Washington Post	article	—
2016	Behind 'Make America Great,' the Koch Agenda Returns with a Vengeance	—	article	—
2016	Trump and Trumpism could win in November, unless the rest of us set aside our differences	—	article	—
2016	Democrats are losing to Republicans at the state level - and badly. Here's why	Vox	article	—
2016	The Split: 19 reasons the Democrats will remain divided - and what it means for the party's future	The New Republic	article	—
2016	How the Right Trounced Liberals in the States	Democracy: A Journal of Ideas	article	—
2016	Republicans Ride the Trump Tiger	Project Syndicate	article	—
2016	A Tale of Two Insurgencies	The American Interest	article	—
2015	A Turning Point for Health Care — and Its G.O.P. Opponents	The New York Times	article	—
2015	Who’s Afraid of a Health-Care Ruling?	The Atlantic	article	—
2015	Will Maine Share in Health Reform’s Success or Follow Old Confederacy?	—	article	—
2015	Wells report distorts workplace realities	The Boston Globe	article	—
2015	53 Historians Weigh in on Obama’s Legacy	—	article	—
2015	ObamaCare’s Remarkable Progress	The Hill	article	—
2014	‘Grubergate’ Shows the Sad State of Debate on ObamaCare	Los Angeles Times	article	—
2014	Commentary for “The Democratic Strategist Roundtable on Progressives and the White Working Class.”	—	article	—
2014	How Strong is the Tea Party? They’ve Won by Leverage, Not Popularity.	The New York Times	article	—
2014	Republicans Need to Suck It Up and Learn to Love ObamaCare.	—	article	—
2014	Organize to Re-Democratize the Nation	The New York Times	article	—
2014	ObamaCare Cures ‘Job Lock’	USA Today	article	—
2014	The Unfortunate Turn against Performance Politics in U.S. Elections	The Hill	article	—
2014	ObamaCare is Working. Why Isn’t Maine Taking Full Advantage of It?	—	article	—
2014	Where Pragmatism about Health Reform Lives	The Hill	article	—
2014	Why the Tea Party’s Hold Persists.	Democracy: A Journal of Ideas	article	—
2014	Both Parties are Keeping Americans in the Dark about Healthcare Reform	The Hill	article	—
2013	What Does Health Reform Do for Americans?	—	article	—
2013	Why the Tea party Isn’t Going Anywhere.	The Atlantic	article	—
2013	The Christmas Story, as Told by the Affordable Care Act.	—	article	—
2013	Could ‘ObamaCare’ be Accepted in Oklahoma by Another Name?	—	article	—
2013	Worst Shutdown in Modern U.S. History	—	article	—
2013	Learning from the Cap-and-Trade Debate.	—	article	—
2013	On Social Security, Tap the Wealthy to Support a Program for All.	The New York Times	article	—
2012	Bringing Academics into the Grassroots Game	The American Prospect	article	—
2012	Majority of N.M. Better Off Under ObamaCare	—	article	—
2012	In the Public Interest: A Discussion with Theda Skocpol about the Scholars Strategy Network.	Maine policy review	article	—
2012	Bending Toward Universal Health Care	The New York Times	article	—
2012	With Ryan Budget, the Wealthy Win, Most Michiganders Lose	—	article	—
2012	Affordable care lives: a benefit and challenge for Maine	—	article	—
2012	The Gravitational Force in the Republican Party	—	article	—
2012	Mitt Romney, the Stealth Tea Party Candidate	The Washington Post	article	—
2012	Getting Past Healthcare’s Individual Mandate	Los Angeles Times	article	—
2012	Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan Could Hurt Many Missourians	—	article	—
2012	A Fairer Tax Future	The Wall Street journal (Eastern ed. : Online)/The Wall…	article	—
2011	Time for National Greatness Liberalism	The American Prospect	article	—
2011	Memo to Obama: Communicate Better.	Washington Monthly	article	—
2011	Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama’s First Two Years	—	edited volume	—
2008	Back to School	Democracy: A Journal of Ideas	article	—
2007	The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism	—	edited volume	—
2003	Where are the Volunteers?	The Boston Globe	article	—
1999	Civic Engagement in American Democracy	—	edited volume	—
1997	Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government. Paperback edition with new Afterword	—	book	—
1996	Bury It.	The New Republic	article	—

Theda Skocpol