SPECIAL EVENT

American Inequality
and the 2008 Election

A panel discussion featuring

Larry M. Bartels
Princeton University

Theda Skocpol
Harvard University

 

Moderated by

Jennifer Hochschild
Harvard University

:: Video index

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008
4:30-6:00 PM

CGIS South-010 | Tsai Auditorium

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About the panelists

 

Larry M. Bartels is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. His most recent book, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, was published by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation earlier this year.

Bartels has published numerous articles on electoral politics, public opinion, the mass media, and political methodology in The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, and other leading scholarly journals, and in a variety of edited volumes.

His first book, Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (Princeton University Press, 1988), received the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the year's best book on government, politics, or international affairs. He has also received the APSA's Franklin L. Burdette and E. E. Schattschneider Awards and the Best Paper Award from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section (three times).

 

Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, where she has also served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2005 through 2007 and as Director of the Center for American Political Studies from 1999 to 2006.

In 2007, Skocpol was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, one of the discipline's largest and most prestigious awards, conferred annually by the Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University (Sweden) to the scholar who in the view of the foundation has made the most valuable contribution to the discipline.

For the past fifteen years, Skocpol's research has focused on U.S. politics in historical and comparative perspective. Her Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992), won five scholarly awards. Skocpol's recent books include Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government (1996); Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life (2003, winner of the 2004 Greenstone Award); Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn (edited with Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2005); and What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and The Struggle for Racial Equality (with Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz, 2006, winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award). Her latest book, The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism (edited with Paul Pierson) was published in fall 2007 by Princeton University Press.