The Progressive era has long been viewed as the seedbed of the
modern American state, a time when a powerful reformist impulse
reshaped the nation's political life in what some have called a
"second founding". Driven by a belief in executive-centered
government yet devoted to the ideal of participatory democracy,
Progressives sought to create self-rule on a grand scale and break
the hold of localist parties and courts that had dominated American
politics for decades.
In this wide-ranging appraisal of the legacy of Progressivism, a
distinguished group of political scientists and historians
reconsiders the achievements and failures of the "new democracy".
The essays explore the impact of Progressivism on domestic as well
as foreign affairs, on the theory as well as the practice of
American government and politics. Taken together, the pieces offer
an original, interdisciplinary critique of modern American
political development, one that challenges traditional
interpretations of the pivotal first decades of the twentieth
century.
In addition to editors Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur,
the contributors are Martha Derthick, John J. Dinan, Eldon J.
Eisenach, Philip J. Ethington, Alonzo L. Hamby, Morton Keller,
Eileen L. McDonagh, and Wilson Carey McWilliams.
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