The precise criteria for what constitutes progressivism varies somewhat worldwide. Below is a list of the most common tenets of progressivism.
Most of the principles that were laid out by early progressives continue to be the hallmarks of contemporary progressive politics. [1]
Many progressives hoped to make government in the U.S. more responsive to the direct voice of the American people by instituting the following institutional reforms:
The progressives achieved their greatest and most enduring successes in the effort to make governments more democratic.
Many progressives hoped to make American governments better able to serve the people's needs by making governmental operations and services more efficient and rational. Reforms included:
The progressives' quest for efficiency was sometimes at odds with the progressives' quest for democracy. Taking power out of the hands of elected officials and placing that power in the hands of professional administrators reduced the voice of the people in government. Centralized decision-making and reduced power for local wards made government more distant and isolated from the people it served. Progressives who emphasized the need for efficiency sometimes argued that an elite class of administrators knew better what the people needed than did the people themselves.
Many progressives hoped that by regulating large corporations they could liberate human energies from the restrictions imposed by industrial capitalism. Yet the progressive movement was split over which of the following four solutions should be used to regulate corporations:
The laissez-faire and socialist approaches were less popular among American progressives than the trust-busting and regulatory approaches.
Many progressives supported both private and governmental action to help people in need (such action is called social justice). Social justice reforms included:
During the term of the progressive President Theodore Roosevelt (1901 – 1909), the largest government-funded environmentalism-related projects in U.S. history were undertaken:
In addition, Roosevelt passed the Newland Act of 1902, which gave subsidies for irrigation in sixteen western states. Another conservation-oriented bill was the Antiquities Act of 1906 that protected large areas of land. The Inland Waterways Commission was established in 1907 to control the United States' rivers and streams. [3]
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The precise criteria for what constitutes progressivism varies somewhat worldwide. Below is a list of the most common tenets of progressivism.
Most of the principles that were laid out by early progressives continue to be the hallmarks of contemporary progressive politics. [1]
Many progressives hoped to make government in the U.S. more responsive to the direct voice of the American people by instituting the following institutional reforms:
The progressives achieved their greatest and most enduring successes in the effort to make governments more democratic.
Many progressives hoped to make American governments better able to serve the people's needs by making governmental operations and services more efficient and rational. Reforms included:
The progressives' quest for efficiency was sometimes at odds with the progressives' quest for democracy. Taking power out of the hands of elected officials and placing that power in the hands of professional administrators reduced the voice of the people in government. Centralized decision-making and reduced power for local wards made government more distant and isolated from the people it served. Progressives who emphasized the need for efficiency sometimes argued that an elite class of administrators knew better what the people needed than did the people themselves.
Many progressives hoped that by regulating large corporations they could liberate human energies from the restrictions imposed by industrial capitalism. Yet the progressive movement was split over which of the following four solutions should be used to regulate corporations:
The laissez-faire and socialist approaches were less popular among American progressives than the trust-busting and regulatory approaches.
Many progressives supported both private and governmental action to help people in need (such action is called social justice). Social justice reforms included:
During the term of the progressive President Theodore Roosevelt (1901 – 1909), the largest government-funded environmentalism-related projects in U.S. history were undertaken:
In addition, Roosevelt passed the Newland Act of 1902, which gave subsidies for irrigation in sixteen western states. Another conservation-oriented bill was the Antiquities Act of 1906 that protected large areas of land. The Inland Waterways Commission was established in 1907 to control the United States' rivers and streams. [3]
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