The Progressives' century : political reform, constitutional government, and the modern American state /

A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government. A century later, a new generation of conservatives...

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Other Authors: Skowronek, Stephen (Editor), Engel, Stephen M. (Editor), Ackerman, Bruce A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale Univ Press, [2016]
Series:Yale ISPS series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Progressives' Century; Chapter 1. A Progressive Conundrum: Federal Constitution, National State, and Popular Sovereignty; PART I: ALTERED FOUNDATIONS: RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION; Chapter 2. Progressivism and the Disenchanted Constitution; Chapter 3. The Progressive Struggle with the Courts: A Problematic Asymmetry; Chapter 4. Rights as Process: A View from the Progressives' Century; Chapter 5. Reclaiming the Conceptual Legacy of the Progressives' Critique of Rights: Equal Protection Without Higher Scrutiny.
  • Chapter 6. Constitutional Conservatives Remember the Progressive EraPART II: NATION BUILDING: PARTY POLITICS AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW CONSENSUS; Chapter 7. From Promoting to Ending Big Government: 1912 and the Progressives' Century; Chapter 8. The Progressive Party and the Rise of Executive-Centered Partisanship; Chapter 9. The Democratic Fit: Party Reform and the Eugenics Tool; Chapter 10. Toward a More Inclusive Community: The Legacy of Female Reformers in the Progressive State; Chapter 11. Progressivism, Liberalism, and the Rich.
  • Chapter 12. The Progressive Seedbed: Claims of American Political Community in the Twentieth and Twenty-First CenturiesPART III: THE NEW STATE: MANAGEMENT AND EXPERTISE; Chapter 13. Completing the Constitution: Progressive-Era Economic Regulation and the Political Perfection of Article I, Section 8; Chapter 14. Rights Through Knowledge and Reason: Civil Rights Aspirations in the Progressive-Era Department of Labor; Chapter 15. The Progressives' Deadly Embrace of Cartels: A Close Look at Labor and Agricultural Markets, 1890-1940.
  • Chapter 16. The (Long) Administrative Century: Progressive Models of GovernanceChapter 17. A Century of Reason: Experts and Citizens in the Administrative State; Chapter 18. From Science to Alchemy: The Progressives' Deployment of Expertise and the Contemporary Faith in Science to Grow the Economy and Create Jobs; PART IV: AN UNSETTLED LEGACY; Chapter 19. Barack Obama and the Traditions of Progressive Reform; Chapter 20. How the Progressives Became the Tea Party's Mortal Enemy: Networks, Movements, and the Political Currency of Ideas.
  • Chapter 21. What Is to Be Done? A New Progressivism for a New CenturyList of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.