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Theda Skocpol and Policy History - Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol, State and Party in America's New Deal (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995). Pp. xiv, 242. $54.00 hc, $19.95 pb. - Theda Skocpol, Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). Pp. 312. $29.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

James T. Patterson
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 1997 , pp. 256 - 261
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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1997

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1. Although Kenneth Finegold is co-author of State and Party, Skocpol's approach is everywhere apparent in the book. The two authors note that they began their investigations some years ago, while she was a junior faculty member at Harvard and he was a doctoral candidate. Three of the ten essays in Social Policy are co-authored; the others are Skocpol's alone. Hence my focus in this review on her contributions.

2. Here they cite a source upon which they rely a good deal: March, James G. and Olsen, Johan P., Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics (New York, 1989), 55–56.Google Scholar

3. From Jencks, Christopher and Peterson, Paul E., eds., The Urban Underclass (Washington, D.C., 1991).Google Scholar