Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The long era of liberal reform that began with the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century and continued with the New Deal, culminated in the 1960s with Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Inspired by the example of his mentor, Franklin Roosevelt, Johnson sought to extend the agenda of the New Deal beyond the realm of economic security to civil rights, housing, education, and health care...read more

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Product Description: The Progressive era has long been viewed as the seedbed of the modern American state, a time when a powerful reformist impulse reshaped the nation's political life in what some have called a "second founding." Driven by a belief in executive-centered government yet devoted to the ideal of participatory democracy, Progressives sought to create self-rule on a grand scale and break the hold of localist parties and courts that had dominated American politics for decades...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This multicolor volume provides a review and analysis of the 1996 election campaign by a team of political scientists, each an expert in his or her area.

Product Description: Professors Mileur and Sulzner examine an area of political activity that has received limited attention. Few efforts have been made to look at small scale campaigns for local or state elective office in any systematic way. Relying upon interviews and surveys of public records, 46 campaigns for the Massachusetts Senate in 1968 are explored in depth...read more