# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 11 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 11 results [### Democrats are losing to Republicans at the state level, and badly. Here's why. ](/news/democrats-are-losing-republicans-state-level-and-badly-heres-why) August 03, 2016 Skocpol and Hertel-Fernandez explain the inner-workings of complex Republican state-level political networks that have vastly out-organized liberals at lower level of the American political system. ![charles_and_david_koch_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/charles_and_david_koch_01.jpg?itok=CUYiULC2) [### Inside the donor network: Studies unravel the towering influence money has over politics — on the right and left ](/news/inside-donor-network-studies-unravel-towering-influence-money-has-over-politics-%E2%80%94-right) June 18, 2016 Sean McElwee and Roberta Barnett writing for Salon discuss how donor groups grow and work strategically to achieve political objectives, using Hertel-Fernandez and Skocpol's research. ![Koch brothers capitol building](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/kochs_capitol_building.jpg?itok=rLVDUd8e) [### After Trump: how authoritarian voters will change American politics ](/news/after-trump-how-authoritarian-voters-will-change-american-politics) April 28, 2016 Amanda Taub writing for Vox.com discusses "the new era of American authoritarian politics," using Skocpol and Hertel-Fernandez's research to detail unprecedented shifts occurring in the modern political system. ![Donald Trump is pictured.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/trumpfreso.jpg?itok=c8otuO0I) [### How the Right Trounced Liberals in the States ](/news/how-right-trounced-liberals-states) January 31, 2016 Conservatives have mastered the art of cross-state policy advocacy, while liberal efforts have fizzled. Skocpol and Hertel-Fernandez trace historical changes in conservative organizational strategy and argue that liberal organizations have failed to keep... description [### New Koch ](/news/new-koch) January 25, 2016 The billionaire brothers are championing criminal-justice reform. Has their formula changed? Jane Mayer uses Skocpol and Hertel-Fernandez's research to discuss how the Koch brothers "have established centralized command of a 'nationally-federated, full... ![koch30.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/koch30.jpg?itok=YY3o1XNF) [### Why Charles Koch says "it's possible" he could support Hillary Clinton ](/news/why-charles-koch-says-its-possible-he-could-support-hillary-clinton) April 25, 2016 Lee Drutman uses Skocpol and Hertel-Fernandez's research on the success of the Koch network of political organizations at the state level in recent years in a piece for Vox.com. ![charleskoch.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/charleskoch.jpg?itok=zkSn62fg) [### How to defeat the Koch brothers: Here’s what it could take to end their right-wing stranglehold ](/news/how-defeat-koch-brothers-here%E2%80%99s-what-it-could-take-end-their-right-wing-stranglehold) January 31, 2016 The billionaires have created a political machine that more and more resembles its own political party. What can be done? Sean McElwee of Salon engages Theda Skocpol and Alex Hertel-Fernandez's research to think about solving this issue challenging... ![Charles and David Koch are pictured.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/charles_and_david_koch.jpg?itok=OZQmbTo2) [### Who Owns the GOP? ](/news/featured-dissent-magazine) February 03, 2016 Theda Skocpol traces the emergence of conservative groups in her review of Jane Mayer's Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right published in Dissent in February. ![Pictured: The Koch brothers.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/kochs1.jpg?itok=QM7uT-Ir) [### How conservative megadonors built a shadow GOP that weakened the official party ](/news/featured-vox) April 14, 2016 Jeff Stein of Vox.com uses Theda Skocpol's work to show how the megadonors such as the Koch brothers weakened the Republican Party with their own political infrastructure. ![The Koch Brothers](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/koch_illo2.0.0.jpg?itok=kXOpYLaZ) [### Five Myths About the Koch Brothers — And Why It Matters To Set Them Straight ](/news/five-myths-about-koch-brothers-%E2%80%94-and-why-it-matters-set-them-straight) March 10, 2016 Skocpol and Hertel-Fernandez's research deconstructs commonly held misperceptions about the Koch brothers and their political networks on billmoyers.com. ![David Koch is pictured.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/koch3.jpg?itok=TV6hYBvk) [### Trump will win or lose - Either way, the Koch network will still shape the Republican Party ](/news/trump-will-win-or-lose-either-way-koch-network-will-still-shape-republican-party) February 29, 2016 Alex Hertel-Fernandez and Theda Skocpol trace the evolution of the Koch political network in an article by Henry Farrell of the Washington Post. ![David Koch is pictured.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11176/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/terrain/files/david_koch.jpeg?itok=K1gzbnQL)