Progressive Democracy

Editor and political philosopher Herbert David Croly (1869 – 1930) was one of intellectual leader of the progressive movement in the early twentieth century. 


His classic Progressive Democracy is organized as follows: 


Introduction 

I. The People and the Law 

II. The Pioneer Democracy and the Constitution 

III. Aggressive and Triumphant Democracy 

IV. The Old Economic Nationalism 

V. The New Economic Nationalism 

VI. The Law and its Benevolent Administration 

VII. The Law and Its Reaction 

VIII. The Law and the Faith 

IX. The Individual and Society 

X. The Ideal and the Program 

XI. Popular Sovereignty 

XII. The Advent of Direct Government 

XIII. Direct Versus Representative Government 

XIV. Visions of a New State 

XV. Majority Rule and Public Opinion 

XVI. Executive Versus Partisan Responsibility 

XVII. The Administration as an Agent of Democracy 

XVIII. Industrial Democracy 

XIX. Social Education