Talk:Theda Skocpol

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Untitled

As with Barrington Moore Jr., I don't have huge knowledge on this subject, but thought that Skocpol at least deserved a stub. Hopefully I'll be able to slowly flesh these out, or some kindly soul will lend a hand... Vanky 15:40, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Paragraphing

There's a 2,500 word paragraph in this article. It either needs to be cut down or at least punctuated properly by someone who understands Skocpol's work better than I do. Bandanamerchant (talk) 11:03, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Some additions

I will be adding that Skocpol is currently "Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University". I don't believe that is addressed. Also, I plan to edit out the paragraph formation and present an updated bibliography.Eadoss (talk) 02:45, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

References

Ideas to Improve this page

Week 3 Assignemnt My ideas to improve this page, feedback appreciated:

• Add “Dr.” in front of each occurrence of “Skocpol”
• Add a link to “state autonomy theory”
• Reword “has written widely for both popular and academic audiences”
• Possibly update picture
• Edit/delete “2002-3, Skocpol…” and reword the sentence to say Skocpol served as President of the American Political Science Association from 2002 – 2003”
• Add “University” after each occurrence of “Harvard”
• Reword “Her 2003 work, Diminished Democracy, seeks to explain the decline of American civic participation in recent decades”
• Add punctuation where needed, fix paragraph structures
• Fix links that do not work (there are a few)
• The last link on the page “About Skocpol” should be re-titled, and this link added: http://scholar.harvard.edu/thedaskocpol/home

--Eadoss (talk) 02:13, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Suggested edit and editions to works cited

Here are some edits and additions I suggest to add information to the page, and then cite from in a bibliography: Politico. (2012). Arena Profile: Theda Skocpol. Politico, LLC. Retrieved from: http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/theda_skocpol.html

Klein, Ezra. (2016). Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics. The Ezra Klein Show Podcast. The Stitcher. Retrieved from: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/the-ezra-klein-show/e/theda-skocpol-on-how-political-scientists-think-differently-about-42895494

Harvard University. (2016). Theda Skocpol - Publications. Retrieved from: http://scholar.harvard.edu/thedaskocpol/publications

Harvard University. (2016). Theda Skocpol - Biographical Note. Retrieved from: http://scholar.harvard.edu/thedaskocpol/biocv

Harvard University. (2016) Theda Skocpol - Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved from: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/thedaskocpol/files/skocpol_cv_2009.pdf?m=1360044018

Skocpol, Theda. (1979). States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. (1992). Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. (1994). Social Revolutions in the Modern World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. (1995). Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. (1995). State and Party in America's New Deal. With Kenneth Finegold. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Skocpol, Theda. (1996). Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics. New York: W.W. Norton.

Skocpol, Theda. (1997). Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government. New York: W.W. Norton.

Skocpol, Theda. (2000). The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy. A Century Foundation Book. New York: W. W. Norton.

Skocpol, Theda. (2003). Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. Rothbaum Series. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Skocpol, Theda. (2006). What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. (2012). Obama and America’s Political Future. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Also, an addition of information on her newest work on the Tea Party.--Eadoss (talk) 00:29, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Ok! Going forward

Hello - I see no one has commented or made any suggestions to the edits I want to make, so I am going to go forward with those.

Thanks - --Eadoss (talk) 01:18, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Edits

Lots of edits today! I did a lot of cleaning up of Paragraphs, punctuation, etc. I added an Introduction title section. I also added to, arranged by date, and italicized titles. I edited some paragraphs in the biography and introduction sections to flow by date, so there wasn't so much skipping around. I also added an explanation of why she was given a particular award, then cited it in the notes at the bottom. I hope to dig deeper into the already addressed theory titles, to make sure they are explained correctly. Also, there is a good pod cast interview with that I want to add in here somewhere, but need ideas how and where. I added the pod cast link in one of my last talk comments above.--Eadoss (talk) 00:47, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Question

Can anyone out there in Wiki World find Theda Skocpol's maiden last name for me? ThanksEadoss (talk) 22:02, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

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