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		Throughout the 20th century, American progressivism gradually evolved to become a movement with close ties to the political left-wing, and contemporary progressives continue to embrace concepts such as environmentalism and social justice.
		Progressivism at the turn of the twentieth century was largely a bipartisan effort led by William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette and William Howard Taft.
		Political progressivism was also represented in the candidacies of economic philosopher Henry George and the Single Tax movement, President Theodore Roosevelt and the Bull-Moose Party, the Cleveland mayoral administration of Tom L. Johnson, Louisiana Governor Huey Long and the Share Our Wealth movement.
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	Political progressivism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Political Progressivism or simply Progressivism is an ideology and political philosophy whose adherants promote policies that they believe would reform a country's government, economy, or society.
		As a broad characterization of political leanings, political progressivism can not be classified as left or right, for it may be applicable to any side, as long as the platform is reformist.
		Progressives around the world today are found in a diverse range of poltical movements that include conservatives, environmentalists, liberals, and socialists.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Progressivism (408 words)

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		However, the “direct primary” policy and the direct election of senators, two of Progressivism’s political reforms, enabled citizens to choose and vote for their party candidates and limited the influence of corporate power on forming the legislative bodies.
		Progressivism is an umbrella label for a wide range of economic, political, social, and moral reforms.
		Part of the influence of musical progressivism came from its engagement with efforts of immigrant, ethnic, migrant, and laboring populations to produce a cultural politics of civics on their own terms.
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	Progressivism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Progressivism or political progressivism is any of several historically related (Click link for more info and facts about political philosophies) political philosophies or political ideologies.
		Progressivism is a stance of active support for political change and especially (Click link for more info and facts about social change) social change by governmental action.
		Progressives usually support either the (A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries) Labor Party, the (A member of the Democratic Party) Democrats or the (Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables) Greens.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/progressivism.htm (1086 words)

	Progressivism - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
		Progressivism is a political philosophy whose adherents promote policies that they believe would reform a country's government, economy, or society.
		As a broad characterization of political leanings, political progressivism can refer to left or antiestablishmentarianism, in which case it may be right or left, as long as the platform is reformist.
		Progressivism may also mean prefering moderate change, oppose to minimal or maximum change.
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	What is Progressivism?
		Progressivism is a political movement that represents the interests of ordinary people in their roles as taxpayers, consumers, employees, citizens, and parents.
		In general Progressivism stands most truly at the opposite pole from economic elitism, and has enjoyed its greatest support and successes precisely when the injustice, exploitation, arrogance, and greed of economic elites become intolerable — to both liberals and conservatives alike.
		This study emphasizes the connection between Progressivism, core American values, and the difficulties confronting attempts to bring those values to bear on politics in the face of a recalcitrant and corrupting business sector.
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	Definitions - .Ethics in Progressivism - Care2.com
		Progressivism is a political philosophy whose adherents promote public policies that they believe would lead to positive social change.
		As a broad characterization of political leanings, political progressivism mostly refers to social liberalism, social democracy, or green politics.
		Progressivism may also mean preferring moderate change, as opposed to minimal or maximum change.
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	Progressivism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Progressivism was the reform movement in which reformers tried to solve those problems.
		Political reforms at local and state level have ensured that all American citizens, women as well as men, Blacks and other minorities as well as Whites, are able to nominate and vote for their political representatives and participate in the political process.
		Progressivism together with the economic growth at the beginning of 19th century changed American life enormously.
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	Reader's Companion to American History - -PROGRESSIVISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Progressivism produced three presidents, and their achievements comprise the most important legacy in the eyes of many analysts.
		Progressivism died twice: at Versailles itself, where Wilson compromised his position repeatedly in the face of European pressures, and in the U.S. Senate, which refused to ratify the treaty or permit American participation in the League of Nations.
		But politics was only one discipline in which progressivism flourished; even the inclusion of journalism and social work in no way exhausts the scope of its influence.
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		Progressivism also may have been fatally tied to the accompanying reality of robust industrial economic growth, which itself was tied to abundant new energy resources, mainly oil.
		The political development, where oil has become a weapon for internal political struggles, a weapon or bargaining chip against other countries, and finally where oil consuming countries, outside of the international oil market try to strengthen their control over the flow of oil, constitute an evident threat against the supply within mainly the OECD area.
		The collected assessment of the authority is that in a national perspective both the global climate and supply disturbances from political causes is reason enough to lower our dependence on oil, in spite of if the risk for a physical shortage of oil is small or not during the foreseeable future.
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	§37. Progressivism. XXI. Political Writing Since 1850. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge ...
		This ideal, rejected by the dominant political parties, led to a revolt.
		Progressivism was the dominant issue in the presidential campaign of 1912.
		The World War, however, so greatly confused the issues and involved the policies of the nation that at the moment Progressivism appears under very different colours from those it wore even two or three years ago, and judgment upon the movement cannot safely be passed.
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	Political progressivism - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Political progressivism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The Muckrakers, a group of writers who aimed to expose corruption and record frankly the age of industrialism, urban poverty, and conspicuous consumption, were closely associated with this movement.
		Progressives believed that the concentration of such massive political and industrial powers were a threat to democracy and equal opportunity.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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	Fonte \| The Ideological War Within the West
		The key political unit is not the individual citizen, who forms voluntary associations and works with fellow citizens regardless of race, sex, or national origin, but the ascriptive group (racial, ethnic, or gender) into which one is born.
		Transnational progressivism assumes that "victim" groups should be represented in all professions roughly proportionate to their percentage of the population.
		The social base of transnational progressivism constitutes a rising postnational intelligentsia (international law professors, NGO activists, foundation officers, UN bureaucrats, EU administrators, corporate executives, and politicians.) When social movements such as "transnationalism" and "global governance" are depicted as the result of social forces or the movement of history, a certain impersonal inevitability is implied.
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	USS Clueless - Transnational progressivism
		Transnational progressivism is fundamentally authoritarian; it believes in the rule of the enlightened few over the unwashed masses, for their benefit.
		By its nature this new political philosophy is elitist; by its nature it seeks to deprive the commons of the ability to inform themselves about issues, to consider those issues, and then to actively participate in the political process.
		Most of the policies they propose are clearly preposterous on the face of it, and in general as long as we stay aware, they'll continue to act ineptly, and when they actually do acquire some measure of temporal power they'll continuee to use it in ways which make clear their incompetence.
	www.denbeste.nu /cd_log_entries/2002/08/Transnationalprogressivis.shtml (3385 words)

	political progressivism - Definition and Meaning of political progressivism
		1: political adj 1: involving or characteristic of polit...
		Pertaining to policy Political rights are those which may be exercised in the fo...
		1: political theory(noun) 1: an orientation...
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	WORKERS AND CAPITAL* - Mario Tronti
		Yet, Leninism is politically ahead of both since it foresees, rather prescribes, that their historical nexus - the relation between struggles and social-democracy - is the practical premise for a workers' defeat.
		It is politically charged with a future not yet even scratched by the attacks of a labor movement which has succeeded in reaching that point, but has not been able to go beyond it.
		The new union was a political fact for three reasons: because it came out of true and advanced labor struggles, because it answered a need for a new organization of a new working class, and because it met capital's great initiative.
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	Populism and Progressivism-- Part III
		Thus, progressivism inevitably recasts the norms of democratic deliberation in the image of elite values and elite preoccupations, and inevitably judges the quality of popular participation by elite standards of education and taste.
		As a result, progressivism is always destined to see itself as the perpetual victim of ingratitude for all of its pains by a populace that continually fails to recognize progressivism's reasoned efforts on its behalf.
		Progressivism tends to be suspicious of such energy, thinking it usually badly informed and misdirected by clever manipulation.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/jbalkin/articles/popprog3.htm (5892 words)

	Educators and Students - Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912
		Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912
		In their opposition they brought to the forefront of American politics those problems that needed rapt attention, and they succeeded in addressing many of them, regardless of party affiliations.
		However, by late in that year, the members abandoned La Follette as their candidate when the immensely popular Roosevelt finally threw his hat back in the ring."Fighting Bob's" success had shown that the party was viable, but Roosevelt's notoriety and national appeal made his chances of winning much greater.
	www.archives.gov /education/lessons/election-cartoons (1131 words)

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		The latter group, however, seem to be a minority; most political composers feel that music should be understandable not only by musical connoisseurs, but by the working classes whose interest it represents, whereas writing music for new-music specialists and the upper class is regarded as being of little value or point.
		One of the largest fissures, plaguing politically conscious composers for the last eight or nine decades, is that musical progressivism and political progressivism do not go hand in hand, and often are felt to be diametrically opposed.
		The Politics of Disquiet: Diamanda Galás in conversation with Edward Batchelder
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	Fonte \| The Ideological War Within the West
		This alternative ideology, "transnational progressivism," constitutes a universal and modern worldview that challenges both the liberal democratic nation-state in general and the American regime in particular.
		THE EU AS A STRONGHOLD OF TRANSNATIONAL PROGRESSIVISM
		The challenge from transnational progressivism to traditional American concepts of citizenship, patriotism, assimilation, and the meaning of democracy itself is fundamental.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_04-06/fonte_ideological/fonte_ideological.html (2831 words)

	progressivism
		While federal, state, and local political institutions all facilitated economic development, the private-market/economic institutions were more powerful in the final decades of the 19th century.
		My own view is that Progressivism was linked by little more than a common belief that industrialism had produced some pretty bad consequences: tainted meat, pollution, the threat of class warfare, and political corruption on an unprecedented scale.
		At the time of the American Revolution, fear of concentrated political power (in the form of a king) seemed to be the greatest threat to social well-being.
	www.columbia.edu /~rr91/1052_2002/lectures_2002/progressivism.htm (6811 words)

	The Claremont Institute » For the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
		The new political science mandarins, many of whom had earned their degrees in Germany (which then had the most advanced university system in the world), looked forward to a "rational" democratic state that would give full reign to popular will, which was almost by definition rational.
		Progressivism is, of course, the father of direct democracy in California, though it was Governor Hiram Johnson's name on the birth certificate.
		Not all of this is Progressivism's fault, but enough of it is to make the recall and its aftermath an occasion for rethinking and perhaps reforming.
	www.claremont.org /writings/crb/fall2003/kesler.html (798 words)

	H-Net Review: David Quigley on The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in ...
		Connolly grounds his retelling of urban political history upon an intensive exploration of the metropolitan press, a theoretically sophisticated analysis of voting patterns, and a critical engagement with a number of historiographical debates.
		Against the traditional view that timeless ethnic tensions have driven the city's politics since the first antebellum wave of Irish immigration, this study counters that it was precisely in the early years of the twentieth century that Boston witnessed the emergence of a contentious politics of ethnicity.
		The opening call for a "political history of social relations" seems temporarily forgotten as Connolly relies upon conventional explanations of the rise of an urban middle class and the emergence of new immigrant communities.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20118919957223 (1290 words)

	Progressive Party (Vermont) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		A group of his supporters organized themselves as the Progressive Alliance to contest further elections.
		The Alliance succeeded in electing several members, including Terry Bouricious, to the Vermont State Legislature, and, after establishing a stable political base, formally became the Progressive Party.
		After a gain of two seats in the 2004 elections, it now has six representatives in the state House of Representatives.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Progressive_Party_(Vermont) (315 words)

	Political progressivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim Anderton formed the New Zealand Progressive Party by splitting from the Alliance (New Zealand political party).
		The Progressive Green Party was formed in 1995 but has now disbanded.
		Progressive Party, which refers to 3 different parties of different periods, to see how the term progressive has been used in political campaigns in the past.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressivism (425 words)

	The American Enterprise: Why Traditional Education Is More Progressive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Political liberals really ought to oppose progressive educational ideas because they have led to practical failure and greater social inequity.
		The most paradoxical aspect of it all is that this new type of school is advocated as being democratic, while in fact it is destined not merely to perpetuate social differences but to crystallize them in Chinese complexities.
		Educational liberalism is a sure means for preserving the social status quo, whereas the best practices of educational conservatism are the only means whereby children from disadvantaged homes can secure the knowledge and skills that will enable them to improve their condition.
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