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

by Marc Stears

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198296768
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	06/28/2002
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Part I: Beginnings
Conceptual foundations
Building the new nationalism
Socialist pluralism
Part II: Debate
From nationalism to pluralism
From pluralism to community
Part III: Convergence
Education as politics
The politics of poverty
Conclusions
Conclusion
Epilogue