State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revo

Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning 1979 book States and Social Revolutions, updates her arguments about social revolutions.

An analysis of the causes and processes of revolution, drawing on the stories of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines.

For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusive

The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed the states where they occurred. Theda Skocpol examines there of these uprisings-the