Katherine bentoncohen on the progressive era. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was, and to think about what i think its core dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds believes was important, and they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see ways that they were fundamentally at some tension. Throughout class think about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is what is progressivism. A famous article that came in and out 1982 was titled in search of progressivism. They knew it existed but quibbling about what counted, what it started, when it ended. Some people were limited only to the Political Party where it was named and others define it more broadly. For me in this class this is howly define progressivism. In the broadest sense, it was the way a whole generation of americans defined themselves polit
Teaches a class on the progressive era. She talks about how politicians and reform groups in the early 20th century attempted to improve social and Economic Conditions. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was and to think about what i think its core dialectic was, the tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. Again, throughout class today, be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is, what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled, in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressivism, who c
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Contained. The Woodrow Wilson Center Hosted this onehour event. Mr. Pomeranz its a great pleasure today to welcome back austin carson. He also has the distinction of being a title viii scholar. He has just written a new book, secret wars covert conflict in international politics. And it will be available for purchase after todays talk. Dr. Carson is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the university of chicago. He has published widely already. In the international organization, the american journal of Political Science, journal of politics and security studies. He has already launched on his second book project which is ambitious which analyzes the role of politics and secrecy in international organizations. He received his phd from ohio state and as i previously mentioned, he was a Summer Research scholar under the title viii program here at the institute in 2013. With that, i will turn the floor over to austin. Prof. Carson great, thanks so much, will. Th