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The Progressives' Century: Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State

Stephen Skowronek, Stephen M Engel, and Bruce Ackerman

Abstract

This book looks at 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 criticizes Progressivism as having abandoned America's founding values and miring the government in institutional gridlock. This book examines a broad range of issues, including Progressives' interpretation of the Constitution, their expansion and redistribution of individual rights, and reforms me ... More

Keywords: Progressive Era, conservatives, liberals, 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism, government, Constitution, individual rights, reforms

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780300204841
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2017 DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300204841.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Stephen Skowronek, editor
Yale University

Stephen M Engel, editor
Yale University

Bruce Ackerman, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Progressives’ Century

Stephen Skowronek and Stephen M. Engel

1 A Progressive Conundrum

Eldon Eisenach

Part I Altered Foundations: Rights and the Constitution

2 Progressivism and the Disenchanted Constitution

Aziz Rana

3 The Progressive Struggle with the Courts

Brian Z. Tamanaha

4 Rights as Process

Karen Orren

5 Reclaiming the Conceptual Legacy of the Progressives’ Critique of Rights

Sonu Bedi

6 Constitutional Conservatives Remember the Progressive Era

Ken I. Kersch

Part II Nation Building: Party Politics and the Search for a New Consensus

7 From Promoting to Ending Big Government

John Milton Cooper

8 The Progressive Party and the Rise of Executive-Centered Partisanship

Sidney M. Milkis

9 The Democratic Fit

Nicole Mellow

10 Toward a More Inclusive Community

Carol Nackenoff

11 Progressivism, Liberalism, and the Rich

Michael McGerr

12 The Progressive Seedbed

Rogers M. Smith

Part III The New State: Management and Expertise

13 Completing the Constitution

Daniel Carpenter

14 Rights Through Knowledge and Reason

Paul Frymer

15 The Progressives’ Deadly Embrace of Cartels

Richard A. Epstein

16 The (Long) Administrative Century

Joanna Grisinger

17 A Century of Reason

Sheila Jasanoff

18 From Science to Alchemy

John D. Skrentny and Natalie Novick

Part IV An Unsettled Legacy

19 Barack Obama and the Traditions of Progressive Reform

James T. Kloppenberg

20 How the Progressives Became the Tea Party’s Mortal Enemy

Steven M. Teles

21 What Is to Be Done?

Bruce Ackerman

End Matter

Contributors

Index