Complex sentence: Before she wrote "Protecting Soldiers and Mothers", Dr. Skocpol first devised what she termed State Autonomy Theory, the idea that state bureaucracies could have potential for autonomous operations and that this potential was ignored by scientists focused on society-centric studies.
Split into simpler sentences: Before she wrote "Protecting Soldiers and Mothers", Dr. Skocpol first devised what she termed State Autonomy Theory. This theory underlined the idea that state bureaucracies could have the potential for autonomous operations, and that this potential was ignored by scientists who were focused on society-centric studies.