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Reply: Against Evolutionism—Social Policies and American Political Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol
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Harvard University
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Conference Panel: On Theda Skocpol's Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
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Studies in American Political Development , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Spring 1994 , pp. 140 - 149
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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6. In this respect, Stone's perspective is similar to that of Linda Gordon. For a full exchange between Linda Gordon and myself about these matters, see Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and Science 2(3) (Spring 1993): 139–89.Google Scholar

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