Introduction The Conservative Response to Progressivism

O’Neill, Johnathan; Postell, Joseph

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“…Some scholars have distinguished between the “legislative progressivism” of Republicans like Taft and their “constitutional conservatism”—supporters of reform who retained a sense that traditional constitutional constraints and the natural rights tradition represented permanent features of the American constitutional order (Schambra , 99–101). The common denominator in all of these perspectives is Taft's acceptance of a moderate reform policy agenda, channeled through the traditional structural constraints of American constitutionalism (O'Neill and Postell ).…”

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The Historical Presidency: The Road Not Taken: Warren G. Harding and the Dilemmas of Regime Restoration

Crockett¹

2018

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In Stephen Skowronek's political time schema, Warren G. Harding is a regime manager tasked with restoring the Republican regime established by William McKinley after Woodrow Wilson's interregnum. Harding faced a particularly interesting decision, for although McKinley was the founder of the modern post–Gilded Age Republican regime, his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, was clearly a more dynamic and disruptive force in the party. The overlooked figure in this sequence, however, is William Howard Taft—in some ways a throwback to a pre‐Roosevelt president, but one who prosecuted a reform policy agenda. Presented with three different models of presidential leadership, Harding ignored the progressive conservatism of Taft and returned to a mistakenly Whiggish view of McKinley's leadership. The result was a lost opportunity for Republicans in the 1920s, setting up their repudiation in 1932.

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The Historical Presidency: The Road Not Taken: Warren G. Harding and the Dilemmas of Regime Restoration

Crockett¹

2018

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Introduction The Conservative Response to Progressivism

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The Historical Presidency: The Road Not Taken: Warren G. Harding and the Dilemmas of Regime Restoration

The Historical Presidency: The Road Not Taken: Warren G. Harding and the Dilemmas of Regime Restoration

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