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Eisenach, Eldon J.

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The Lost Promise of Progressivism 1994

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Eldon J. Eisenach¹

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“…The third historiography of political development and the mobilization for the First World War are those works focused on America's federal system and the associational approach to governing seen in the use of private, organized interests to expand governmental power. 20 This scholarship, led by historians like Brian Balogh, describes how the public and private actions of both state and voluntary groups sought to achieve collective goals without overtly pushing against the American belief in individual freedom, resulting in a less-centralized, bureaucratic-or administrative-"associational state." 21 Building upon Ellis Hawley, who described this type of relationship between formal government organizations and private groups as an "expanded system of extra-governmental governance," 22 Balogh details how an associational state allowed Americans to link formal governmental power at the federal and state level with "interlocking relationships between citizens and their localities" based on the United States' decentralized governance structure built on federalism.…”

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“Building A Great Organization for War”: The Associational State and Woman’s War Work in North Carolina, 1917–1919

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The entry of the United States into the First World War and the integration of women into mobilization expanded women-run private initiatives and integrated their associational efforts into the war effort. This created greater visibility of women and children to state and federal governments. In the end, however, the increased attention and mobilization of private organizations by the state around women’s issues was fleeting. The alacrity with which North Carolina dispensed with these mechanisms for mobilization is an example of their purpose as associational measures to manage the dynamics of wartime and maintain pre-war hierarchies of power. Throughout the war, the bifurcation of work based on gender and the unfixed status of women created a situation in which their participation required constant negotiation. The need to negotiate participation in the mobilization was itself an outgrowth of the conflicted relationship between American government and civil society over women’s issues. After the war, these issues again became the purview of private organizations and other systems of extra-governmental governance that leveraged a more associational relationship with federal and state governments.

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“…The reform proposals circulating at this time covered the wide range of economic, political, and social life (Hofstadter 1955 ; Scott 1959 ; Hays 1964 ; Shalin 1988 ; Gendzel 2011 ; Eisenach 2021 ).…”

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Progressivism, Old and New: The Spiritual Moorings of Progressive Reforms

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With the tide of progressive reforms facing strong headwinds today, this essay offers a retrospective look at the progressive movement in the U.S.A. and reflects on the lessons to be learned from its triumphs and failures. The case is made that major advances in the progressive agenda came at historical junctions precipitated by dramatic events. The stretch between 1900 and 1920 saw the first wave of social reforms following the late nineteenth century recessions and upsurge in labor unrest. The New Deal took shape in the 1930s in the aftermath of the Great Depression. The Civil Rights movement burst onto the scene in the 1960s in the face of bitter attempts to shore up segregationist practices in southern states. And the 2020s spike in progressive activism gained momentum against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and the January 6 Capitol riots. Special attention is paid to the interfaces between Social Gospel theology and efforts to ground progressive rhetoric in what John Dewey called “common faith,” Robert Bellah “civil religion,” and Richard Rorty “liberal pragmatism.”

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