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In Defense of the Founders Republic: Critics of Direct Democracy in the Progressive Era de Lonce H. Bailey

In Defense of the Founders Republic: Critics of Direct Democracy in the Progressive Era

Editat de Lonce H. Bailey, Jerome M. Mileur
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2015
Who were the Progressive reformers arguing with? The answer might surprise you. Drawing together a veritable powerhouse of scholars from across the political spectrum, In Defense of the Founders Republic examines the historical roots of these critics as well as their potential contribution to current debates about government and role of politics and institutions in our constitutional republic. Profiles and debates across a variety of progressive-era dissenters including politicians, community activists, political scientists, and socialists create a more complete picture of the national conversation, and the development of this monumental American political era. With clear contemporary relevance, In Defense of the Founders Republic is required reading for anyone interested in the complete progressive debate.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781623565770
ISBN-10: 1623565774
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Highlights the implications of progressive era debates in contemporary and historical ways

Notă biografică

Lonce H. Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Shippensburg University, USA. He serves as the Academic Director for the US State Department's Study of the US Institute on American Politics and Political Thought, an academic institute for academics from overseas.Jerome M. Mileur is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, where he taught courses on American politics and thought. He is coeditor, with Sidney Milkis, of Progressivism and the New Democracy (1999), The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002), and The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (2005).

Cuprins

1. Progressivisim and Its Critics. Lonce H. Bailey, Shippensburg University2. James Madison: Architect of the First Founding. Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick, University of Massachusetts Amherst3. Nicholas Murray Butler: Universal Truths and the Foundations of Republican Institutions.Lonce H. Bailey, Shippensburg University4. Henry Jones Ford: The President and Responsible Democracy. Lonce H. Bailey, Shippensburg University and Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts Amherst5. William Howard Taft: The Constitutionalist as Critic of Progressivism. Paul M. Rego, Messiah College6. Joseph G. Cannon: Partisan Majorities and Responsible Democracy. Douglas H. Harris,Loyola University Maryland7. Elihu Root: Balancing Constitutionalism and Democracy. Robert J. Lacey, Iona College 8. Eugene V. Debs: Champion of Social Democracy. Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts Amherst9. Laboratories of Reform: Wisconsin and Oregon. Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lonce H. Bailey, Shippensburg University10. American Politics Remade. Jerome M. Mileur, University of Massachusetts Amherst University Index

Recenzii

Progressivism's critics included some of the most experienced and brilliant American leaders of their day. In this sterling collection, first-rate scholars bring their perspectives to life and explore the roots, meaning and impact of their ideas. Like or hate these critics, understanding them greatly enriches our knowledge of one of the great reform periods in American history-and gives us more insight into American politics today.
Lonce H. Bailey and Jerome M. Mileur have done an outstanding job in describing how Progressives formed a Second American Republic. Their study captures the major issue of our time-how much power should be vested in the people vs. the importance of mediating institutions. It is the decline of the latter that has shaped much of our present-day politics and should worry all of us.
Bailey and Mileur have recruited a learned and engaging cast of scholars who shed new light on the struggle for America's constitutional soul at the dawn of the 20th century. Recapturing the most thoughtful critics of Progressive Democracy, this volume offers a compelling portrait of alternative visions of modern America. Although the defenders of the constitutional sobriety, political parties, and social democracy failed to thwart Progressivism's advance, their prescient critique of plebiscitary politics and administrative aggrandizement resonate powerfully in our own political time. The authors' well written and probing essays on America's "second founding" will appeal both to scholars and those outside of the academy who seek a deeper understanding of the causes of America's present discontents.
In Defense of the Founders Republic is a timely book and should be read by all who want to understand the prevailing problems of governance in Washington and state capitols across the nation. This volume re-introduces us to a vibrant cast of intellectual and political leaders who warned a century ago against applying untested reforms to remake the American republic from its foundational roots. By re-discovering the arguments of the original critics of Progressivism-critics who ranged from conservatives to socialists-we begin to understand why America's representative institutions do not seem capable of meeting the challenges of our times.