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Gender, States, and Social Policies: Skocpol's View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Bruce G. Carruthers
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , Fall 1993 , pp. 671 - 688
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1993 

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2 For a fuller discussion, see Edwin Amenta, “The State of the Art in Welfare State Research (on Social Spending Efforts in Capitalist Democracies since 1960),”Am. J. Soc. (forthcoming); Edwin Amenta & Bruce G. Carruthers, “The Formative Years of U.S. Social Spending Policies: Theories of the Welfare State and the American States during the Great Depression,” 53 Am. Soc. Rev. 661 (1988).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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10 It may be that this difference between Skocpol's two books is not a deeply principled one and that ideology simply doesn't matter as much for revolutions as for welfare policy. However, given various articles written between her two major books, which indicate a shift, 1 suspect that Skocpol has changed her position and now grants more significance to ideological factors. See the exchange with William Sewell over the role of ideology in revolutions, in Sewell, William H. Jr., “Ideologies and Social Revolutions: Reflections on the French Case,” 57 J. Mod. Hist. 57 (1985), and Skocpol, Theda, “Cultural Idioms and Political Ideologies in the Revolutionary Reconstruction of State Power,” 57 J. Mod. Hist. 86 (1985).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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