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Tag: Theda Skocpol
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Nation & World
Why so many blue-collar workers drifted away from Democratic Party
New book puts mid-century unions at center of Rust Belt identity and social life. Shifting economy splintered community and fostered disillusionment.
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Where are we going, America?
Days before the midterms, we sat down with three scholars for a conversation about U.S. democracy. The mood was anxious.
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Braking for badges
Political scientist Theda Skocpol has traveled U.S. collecting “little works of art” that reflect nation’s history — badges of fraternal groups.
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Skocpol tells PBK students: World of trouble awaits you. Fight to fix it.
The 230th Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises were held Tuesday at Sanders Theatre.
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What the election may tell us about the future
The five panelists on a Tuesday roundtable discussed “Implications of the 2020 Election.”
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The problems (and promise) of polling
It seems political polls may have again missed the mark, but a range of Harvard experts warn the truth is much more complicated.
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Why isn’t the right more afraid of COVID-19?
Don’t they know how contagious this virus is? Analysts discuss why some people ignore or reject the medical experts and science of COVID.
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Is rural America solidly red? Not exactly, Harvard scholars say
Harvard political scientists traveled to four swing states in the past three years to take the political temperature in conservative counties.
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‘Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns?’
E.J. Dionne explains how progressives and moderates can come together against the “threat to basic democratic values” posed by the Trump presidency.
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Sidney Verba dies at 86
Colleagues reflect on the legacy of Sidney Verba, an influential political scientist who taught at Harvard for 35 years.
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Theda Skocpol, superfan
Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard, is passionate about comparative and American politics and social policy. For close to two decades, her second passion has been football.
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Professor’s book selected for Canto Classics series
Harvard professor and Weatherhead faculty associate Robert Bates’ book “When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa” has been selected for inclusion in the Canto Classics series by Cambridge Univerity Press.
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The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest
Increasingly, economic and political inequality in America is interlaced, analysts say, leaving many more people poorer and voiceless. But there are policy changes that could help change that.
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Not very good governance
Panelists at the Harvard Kennedy School consider why Congress isn’t working.
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Tracking a cultural shift
Harvard experts examine high court rulings, as well as the political, cultural, and social factors that have ushered in a wave of support for marriage equality.
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A groundswell on climate change
More vigorous grassroots social action is needed to drive the reforms that could address climate change, panelists said during a discussion at Sanders Theatre.
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Truth, values, in a reviving America
With a bitter national election fading in the rearview mirror, Harvard scholars look ahead and strike an optimistic chord, suggesting the nation can meet the many serious challenges facing it.
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Portrait of the Tea Party
New book documents a rising movement of likable people with offbeat ideas, who constitute a major influence on the Republican Party in this presidential election.
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Your grandparents’ Tea Party
To conservatives, the Tea Partiers are patriots; to liberals, they’re a scourge on progress and civil society. Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, used different terms to describe the activists to undergraduates: grandma and grandpa.
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AAC&U names Skocpol a director
At its recent annual meeting in San Francisco, the Association of American Colleges and Universities named Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, a director.
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Chronic condition
Panelists discussed the impact, failures, and future of health care reform at a Harvard Kennedy School event on Feb. 23.
