THE TIME IS NEVER RIPE: The Repeated Defeat of Universal Health Insurance in the 20th Century United States. TWENTY SIXTH GEARY LECTURE, 1995

My presentation for today’s Geary lecture uses a recent episode in US politics - President Bill Clinton’s 1993 Health Security proposal for comprehensive health insurance reform, and the subsequent conservative political backlash against it - as a window into the history of attempts to create universal health insurance in the United States. This episode also reveals much about the present and probable future of social-welfare politics in the United States

Five minutes with Theda Skocpol: “Even those on the American centre-left are now viewing Europe in a negative sense because of austerity”

Should the organisations of the state be seen as independent actors, or are they simply reflective of groups within society? EUROPP’s editors spoke to Theda Skocpol about her contribution to ‘state theory’ and the effect of European integration on EU states. She also outlines some of her recent research on climate change legislation, and addresses the parallels between the Tea Party movement in the United States and populist movements in Europe

Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy

Streaming video requires RealPlayer to view.The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She will discuss the results of her recent research in "Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy."Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent webpage, streaming video, photo

Warren Durgin’s Gravestone and the Renewal of American Civic Democracy

In the Margaret Chase smith Essay, Theda Skocpol reflects on the importance of voluntary associations on Maine and national civic life in the past. She notes that the traditional types of voluntary associations have declined since the 1960s, though at the state and local level there are nonprofit organizations with paid staff that provide some of the functions of the older voluntary organizations, and which themselves also use volunteers

Warren Durgin’s Gravestone and the Renewal of American Civic Democracy

In the Margaret Chase smith Essay, Theda Skocpol reflects on the importance of voluntary associations on Maine and national civic life in the past. She notes that the traditional types of voluntary associations have declined since the 1960s, though at the state and local level there are nonprofit organizations with paid staff that provide some of the functions of the older voluntary organizations, and which themselves also use volunteers

Middle America Reboots Democracy

Describes shifts in political participation in 2017-2018, as the rate of engagement in face-to-face political action among college educated women has surged, in concert with a wave of formation of new, local political action groups in Middle America's suburbs

Dynamics of the superconducting condensate in the presence of a magnetic field. Channelling of vortices in superconducting strips at high currents

On the basis of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation we studied the dynamics of the superconducting condensate in a wide two-dimensional sample in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field and applied current. We could identify two critical currents: the current at which the pure superconducting state becomes unstable ($J_{c2}$ \cite{self1}) and the current at which the system transits from the resistive state to the superconducting state ($J_{c1}<J_{c2}$). The current $J_{c2}$ decreases monotonically with external magnetic field, while $J_{c1}$ exhibits a maximum at $H^*$. For sufficient large magnetic fields the hysteresis disappears and $J_{c1}=J_{c2}=J_c$. In this high magnetic field region and for currents close to $J_c$ the voltage appears as a result of the motion of separate vortices. With increasing current the moving vortices form 'channels' with suppressed order parameter along which the vortices can move very fast. This leads to a sharp increase of the voltage. These 'channels' resemble in some respect the phase slip lines which occur at zero magnetic field.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Third European Conference on Vortex Matter in Superconductor