The Progressives' Century

Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State

Stephen Skowronek, Stephen M. Engel, Bruce Ackerman

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Edition: 1
• Year: 2016
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780300225099
• Index: History

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Progressives’ Century
• 1. A Progressive Conundrum
• Part I: Altered Foundations: Rights And The Constitution
• 2. Progressivism and the Disenchanted Constitution
• 3. The Progressive Struggle with the Courts
• 4. Rights as Process
• 5. Reclaiming the Conceptual Legacy of the Progressives’ Critique of Rights
• 6. Constitutional Conservatives Remember the Progressive Era
• Part II: Nation Building: Party Politics and the Search for a New Consensus
• 7. From Promoting to Ending Big Government
• 8. The Progressive Party and the Rise of Executive-Centered Partisanship
• 9. The Democratic Fit
• 10. Toward a More Inclusive Community
• 11. Progressivism, Liberalism, and the Rich
• 12. The Progressive Seedbed
• Part III: The New State: Management and Expertise
• 13. Completing the Constitution
• 14. Rights Through Knowledge and Reason
• 15. The Progressives’ Deadly Embrace of Cartels
• 16. The (Long) Administrative Century
• 17. A Century of Reason
• 18. From Science to Alchemy
• Part IV: An Unsettled Legacy
• 19. Barack Obama and the Traditions of Progressive Reform
• 20. How the Progressives Became the Tea Party’s Mortal Enemy
• 21. What Is to Be Done?
• Contributors
• Index