Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State : Ideologies of Reform in the United States and Britain, 1906-1926

Marc Stears

ISBN 10: 0198296762 / ISBN 13: 9780198296768

Edité par Oxford University Press (UK) Aug 2002, 2002

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Neuware - Employing new methods of conceptual and institutional analysis, and drawing on extensive original archival research, this book examines the efforts of leading political theorists to transform the initially distinctive theories of the British and American lefts into a single unified ideology. In so doing it challenges traditional narratives emphasising the exceptional development the American and British lefts, and argues instead that the central theoretical and practical commitments of both movements were constantly shaped and reshaped by international ideological exchange.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State : Ideologies of Reform in the United States and Britain, 1906-1926
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press (UK) Aug 2002
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198296762
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198296768
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu

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Synopsis

In the first three decades of the twentieth century, two groups of radical political theorists-one American and one British-were bound together in a unique ideological relationship. Pluralists, Progressives, and the Problems of the State provides the first comprehensive examination of the intellectual dialogue that constituted that bond. Drawing on extensive original archival research and employing conceptual, institutional and historical analysis, the book examines the efforts of these two initially distinctive political movements to forge a single ideology capable of motivating far-reaching reform in both of their countries. In so doing it challenges traditional narratives emphasizing the exceptional development of American progressivism and British socialism, arguing instead that the intellectual aspirations and political programmes of both were constantly shaped and reshaped by international ideological exchange. Such an analysis transforms our understanding of the complex political demands of these movements and enables the works of their leading protagonists, including G.D. H. Cole, Herbert Croly, Harold Laski, and Walter Lippmann, to emerge as rich and sophisticated contributions to modern political thought.