Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Claremont Institute
Pages: 388
Trim: 6¾ x 9¼
978-0-7425-4973-9 • Hardback • June 2005 • $152.00 • (£117.00)
978-0-7425-4974-6 • Paperback • June 2005 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
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John Marini is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the coeditor of The Imperial Congress: Crisis in the Separation of Powers (1989) and the author of The Politics of Budget Control: Congress, the Presidency, and the Growth of the Administrative State (1992). Ken Masugi is director of the Center for Local Government at the Claremont Institute. He is the coauthor, coeditor, or editor of seven books on American politics and political thought.
Part 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
Recommendeddddd
— Choice Reviews
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
Recommended
— Choice Reviews
This book is a counter-revolutionary work which examines a revolution. Its "counter-revolution" is the use of the American founding principles of natural rights, limited government, separation of powers, and constitutionalism against the Progressive premises of historical development, centralized power, and potentially unlimited government. Several of the most prominent political scientists who take this position are represented in this book.