Description:
The work of Barrington Moore, Jr., is one of the landmarks of modern social science. A distinguished roster of contributors here discusses the influence of his best-known work, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.
Brief description: Theda Skocpol is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Director of the Center for American Political Studies, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She is the author The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy and Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life.
Review Quotes:
This is an unusually stimulating collection of essays, one which, to a degree exceptional among volumes honoring great scholars, looks forward much more than back.
--Jack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis "Journal of Economic History"