2026 Theda Skocpol: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	72	45	38	24	18	359	46998

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
2016 - Mattei Dogan Prize from International Political Science Association
2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2007 - Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science For her visionary analysis of the significance of the state for revolutions, welfare and political trust, pursued with theoretical depth and empirical evidence.
1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993 - Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1979 - C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Overview

Theda Skocpol is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, as well as sociology and political science. Their research also touches upon strategy and management within these broader fields.

Theda Skocpol's recent publications include:

"Social Justice Campaigns and Democratic Party Gains: How Georgia's Partisan Reformers Overtook North Carolina's Moral Advocates" (2022), published in Studies in American Political Development
"Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy" (2025), published in PS Political Science & Politics
"Reflections on an anniversary" (2024), published in Politics

Coauthors frequently working with Theda Skocpol include Caroline Tervo, Kirsten Walters, Sarah James, Margaret Weir, and Ann Shola Orloff.

Theda Skocpol has published in several respected journals, with multiple works appearing in Studies in American Political Development. Other publication venues include:

RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PS Political Science & Politics
Politics
Perspectives on Politics

Theda Skocpol's academic contributions address a range of topics, such as:

Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Populism, Right-Wing Movements

One notable book by Theda Skocpol, published by Princeton University Press in 2020, is titled "Social Policy in the United States."

Among awards received by Theda Skocpol are:

Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2007), awarded for their analysis of the role of the state in revolutions, welfare, and political trust
Mattei Dogan Prize from the International Political Science Association (2016)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2008)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (1993)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1989)
C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (1979)

Best Publications

States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China

Theda Skocpol

6572
Citations
Bringing the State Back in

Peter B. Evans;Dietrich Rueschemeyer;Theda Skocpol

5927
Citations
Protecting soldiers and mothers : the political origins of social policy in the United States

Theda Skocpol

3034
Citations
Bringing the State Back In: Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research

Unknown

2073
Citations
Historical Institutionalism in Contemporary Political Science

Ira Katznelson;Helen V. Milner;Theda Skocpol;Paul Pierson

1947
Citations
States and Social Revolutions

Theda Skocpol;Barrington Moore

1855
Citations
The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry

Theda Skocpol;Margaret Somers

1716
Citations
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

Vanessa Williamson;Theda Skocpol;John Coggin

1532
Citations
Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life

Theda Skocpol

1335
Citations
Civic Engagement in American Democracy

Theda Skocpol;Morris P. Fiorina

1181
Citations
States and Social Policies

Theda Skocpol;Edwin Amenta

949
Citations
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

Theda Skocpol

760
Citations
Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

Theda Skocpol

747
Citations
A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States

Theda Skocpol;Marshall Louis Ganz;Ziad Munson

718
Citations
Bringing the State Back In: State Structures and the Possibilities for “Keynesian” Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States

Margaret Weir;Theda Skocpol

679
Citations
"Why Not Equal Protection?": Explaining the Politics of Public Social Spending in Britain, 1900-1911 and the United States, 1880s-1920

Ann Shola Orloff;Theda Skocpol

630
Citations
Political Response to Capitalist Crisis: Neo-Marxist Theories of the State and the Case of the New Deal:

Theda Skocpol

567
Citations
State Capacity and Economic Intervention in the Early New Deal

Theda Skocpol;Kenneth Finegold

524
Citations
The Politics of Social Policy in the United States

Margaret Weir;Ann Shola Orloff;Theda Skocpol

506
Citations
Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

Lawrence R Jacobs;Theda Skocpol

441
Citations
Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World

Jeffrey Goodwin;Theda Skocpol

416
Citations
RENTIER STATE AND SHI'A ISLAM IN THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION

Theda Skocpol

360
Citations
The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America.

Theda Skocpol;Peter Flora;Arnold J. Heidenheimer

40
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota

Dietrich Rueschemeyer Brown University

Peter Evans University of California, Berkeley

Paul Pierson University of California, Berkeley

Morris P. Fiorina Stanford University

Adam Przeworski New York University

Charles Tilly Columbia University

Robert D. Putnam Harvard University

William Julius Wilson Harvard University

James C. Scott Yale University

External Links

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