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Book SynopsisWe 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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If you want to know why the Constitution became a 'living' document, why the size and scope of government can’t be limited, and how we got here, you must get it. -- Peter W. Schramm, Executive Director of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs and a Professor of Political Science at Ashland University
Edited by Claremont Institute senior fellows John Marini and Ken Masugi, The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science brings together eleven essays to explain the conflict between classic natural right and historicism that has been at the core of the Western philosophic tradition, and which plays itself out in an American context as the conflict between our country's founding principles and the modern administrative state. John Marini, who perhaps more than anyone has plumbed the depths of Progressive thought and found its source in Hegelian historicism, provides a breathtakingly accurate account of the Progressive transformation of the American Minddd * Claremont Review of Books *
Edited by Claremont Institute senior fellows John Marini and Ken Masugi, The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science brings together eleven essays to explain the conflict between classic natural right and historicism that has been at the core of the Western philosophic tradition, and which plays itself out in an American context as the conflict between our country's founding principles and the modern administrative state. John Marini, who perhaps more than anyone has plumbed the depths of Progressive thought and found its source in Hegelian historicism, provides a breathtakingly accurate account of the Progressive transformation of the American Mind * Claremont Review of Books *
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Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: The Progressive Critique of Constitutionalism Chapter 3 Progressivism and the Transformation of American Government Chapter 4 Theodore Roosevelt on Self-Government and the Administrative State Chapter 5 Frederick Douglass' Natural Rights Constitutionalism: The Postwar, Pre-Progressive Period Chapter 6 Regimes and Revolutions: Madison and Wilson on Parties in America Chapter 7 Montesquieu, the Founders, and Woodrow Wilson: The Evolution of Rights and the Eclipse of Constitutionalism Chapter 8 Marbury v. Madison and the Progressive Transformation of Judicial Power Part 9 Part II: The Progressive Persuasion in Practice and Theory Chapter 10 Progressivism, Modern Political Science, and the Transformation of American Constitutionalism Chapter 11 Darwin's Public Policy: Nineteenth Century Science and the Rise of the American Welfare State Chapter 12 Zoning and Progressive Political Theory Chapter 13 Campaign Finance Reform: The Progressive Reconstruction of Free Speech Chapter 14 Aimless Theorizing: The Progressive Legacy for Political Science Part 15 About the Editors and Contributors
