The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science: Transforming the American Regime (Claremont Institute Series on Statesmanship and Political Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742549747 ISBN 13: 9780742549746

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

We cannot understand our current political situation and the scholarship used to comprehend our politics without taking full account of the Progressive revolution of a century ago. This fundamental shift in studying the political world relegated the theory and practice of the Founders to an antiquated historical phase. By contrast, our contributors see beyond the horizon of Progressivism to take account of the Founders moral and political premises. By doing so they make clear the broader context of current political science disputes, a fitting subject as American professional political science enters its second century.

The contributors to the volume specify the changes in the new world that Progressivism brought into being. Part I emphasizes the contrast between various Progressives and their doctrines, and the American Founding on political institutions including the presidency, political parties, and the courts; statesmen include Frederick Douglass, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and John Marshall. Part II emphasizes the radical nature of Progressivism in a variety of areas critical to the American constitutional government and self-understanding of the American mind. Subjects covered include social science, property rights, Darwinism, free speech, and political science as a liberal art. The essays provide intellectual guidance to political scientists and indicate to political practitioners the peculiar perspectives embedded in current political science.

Published in cooperation with The Claremont Institute.

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About the Authors

Ken Masugi received his PhD from the New School for Social Research and teaches for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Advanced Studies in American Government in Washington, DC. He is editor of Interpreting Tocqueville's "Democracy in America"(described in the American Political Science Review as representing a "revolution in Tocqueville scholarship") and coeditor of nine other books on modern and American political thought. Masugi is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute,a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for American Greatness, and is editor of Unmasking the Administrative State (2019), by John Marini.

Paul Carrese is the founding director of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University.

Scot J. Zentner is professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742549747
• ISBN 13: 9780742549746
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Marini John