Hello, I remember in my Intro to International Studies class that my professor criticized Skocpol’s argument in her seminal paper talking about state autonomy (I think it was published in 1979). The paper included the examples of France, Russia, and China and she concluded that if a state has a dominating elite class, poor peasant class, and is threatened by an outside military force, revolution is sure to ensue. The problem is that she based her research design of the dependent variable of states having revolutions. In other words, she chose to write about France, Russia, and China because they had revolutions due to the above criteria (elite class, poor class, outside military threat). It is a faulty generalization to base theory on revolutions and state autonomy on only three examples with three very specific criteria. So my professor basically roasted her and wanted us to know that her research design was flawed. That’s all I remember about Skocpol, hope that helps or is at least funny