Whereas conservatives in America often disagree over which moral and political goods are most urgently in need of conservation, contemporary progressives are principally divided over the means—the kinds of government action—for achieving the progressive ends around which they unite. Varieties of Progressivism in America focuses on the debates within the party of progress about how best to increase opportunity in America and to make social and political life more egalitarian. The contributors to this volume, offering different expertise and different perspectives, combine varying voices, terminology, and views of American politics to provide a better sense of the different meanings of progressivism in our nation today. They examine the Old Democrats of the New Deal, the contributions of the Clinton-era New Democrats, and the future of progressivism in America. Full-text PDF versions of each chapter can be accessed below by clicking on the desired chapter title. (PDF files require Adobe Reader. If you do not already have this software installed, click here to download it for free at the Adobe web site.) Copyright © 2004 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  PART I: OLD DEMOCRATS
• Old Democrats and the Shock of the New
• The Old and New Democratic Parties
  PART II: NEW DEMOCRATS
• Incomplete Victory: The Rise of the New Democrats
• Center Forward? The Fate of the New Democrats
  PART III: THE FUTURE OF PROGRESSIVISM
• What’s a Progressive to Do? Strategies for Social Reform in a Hostile Political Climate
• The Poverty of Progressivism and the Tragedy of Civil Society
• Index