Progressive DemocracyTransaction Publishers - 438 pages Croly explains the requirements for a genuinely popular system of representative government providing progressive liberalism with both a philosophical critique of the founding fathers' political outlook, and a political strategy for replacing it with something more in keeping with a new epoch. Although it was written in 1914, the intellectual structure remains largely intact within the liberal-progressive tradition. |
Contents
| ix | |
INTRODUCTION | l |
THE PEOPLE AND THE LAW | 29 |
THE PIONEER DEMOCRACY AND THE CONSTITUTION | 46 |
AGGRESSIVE AND TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY | 63 |
THE OLD ECONOMIC NATIONALISM | 81 |
THE NEW ECONOMIC NATIONALISM | 103 |
THE LAW AND ITS BENEVOLENT ADMINISTRATION | 127 |
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY | 220 |
THE ADVENT OF DIRECT GOVERNMENT | 245 |
DIRECT vs REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT | 267 |
VISIONS OF A NEW STATE | 284 |
MAJORITY RULE AND PUBLIC OPINION | 303 |
EXECUTIVE VS PARTISAN RESPONSIBILITY | 330 |
THE ADMINISTRATION AS AN AGENT OF DEMOCRACY | 349 |
INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY | 378 |
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accepted accomplish action active administration agency amendment Ameri American conservatism American democracy American political associated authority become citizens consequently conservatives considered Constitution coöperation courts Croly Croly's democ democratic depends direct democracy direct government direct popular economic system effective elected electorate emancipation essential exercise existing faith Federal Federalist Founders function fundamental gressive Herbert Croly human imposed increasing independence industrial instrument interest Jacksonian Democrats justice kind lative legislative legislature machinery majority means ment merely method monarchy moral nature necessary needs nomic official partisan organization party political science political system popular control popular government popular sovereignty practical privilege progressive democracy progressivism proposed public opinion purpose racy realization reason reform Republicans responsibility result rule seek separation of powers social democracy social program social righteousness society specific sufficient tendency tion tive traditional system two-party system voters wage-earners Walter Lippmann Whigs