Progressive democracy
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Bibliographic Information
Progressive democracy
Transaction Publishers, c1998
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1914
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, INTRODUCTION, I. THE PEOPLE AND THE LAW, II. THE PIONEER DEMOCRACY AND THE CONSTITUTION, III. AGGRESSIVE AND TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY, IV. THE OLD ECONOMIC NATIONALISM, v. THE NEW ECONOMIC NATIONALISM, VI. THE LAW AND ITS BENEVOLENT ADMINISTRATION, VII. THE LAW AND ITS REACTION, VIII. THE LAW AND THE FAITH, IX. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY, X. THE IDEAL AND THE PROGRAM, XI. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, XII. THE ADVENT OF DIRECT GOVERNMENT, XIII. DIRECT VS. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, XIV. VISIONS OF A NEW STATE, XV. MAJORITY RULE AND PUBLIC OPINION, XVI. EXECUTIVE VS. PARTISAN RESPONSIBILITY, XVII. THE ADMINISTRATION AS AN AGENT OF DEMOCRACY, XVIII. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY, XIX. SOCIAL EDUCATION, INDEX
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