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:::::I'm saying Progressivism has different shades of meaning since the original popularization of the term c.1882. I've summarized the basic thesis here ([[#CivilDemocratic_Party_service_replaces_Reconstruction_and_the_spoils_system]]) and here ([[Civil_service_system#U.S._civil_service]].
:::::I'm saying Progressivism has different shades of meaning since the original popularization of the term c.1882. I've summarized the basic thesis here ([[#CivilDemocratic_Party_service_replaces_Reconstruction_and_the_spoils_system]]) and here ([[Civil_service_system#U.S._civil_service]].
:::::It cannot be understood without a full understanding of the Spoils system and Political patronage (and its potential for rampant corruption), which still exists in many states and municipalities. Additionally, it has nothing to do with social policy, other than lifetime bureaucrats attempting to hold onto their jobs and implement social spending programs legislated by elected officials, which itself is a hybrid Spoils system that extends itself past a two year election cycle.
:::::It cannot be understood without a full understanding of the Spoils system and Political patronage (and their potential for rampant corruption), which still exists in many states and municipalities. Additionally, it has nothing to do with social policy, other than lifetime bureaucrats attempting to hold onto their jobs and implement social spending programs legislated by elected officials, which itself is a hybrid Spoils system that extends itself past a two year election cycle.
:::::The early progressives would be Cleveland and TR Roosevelt; the middling progressives would be Colonel House, and [[V.I. Lenin]], who introduced the idea of specialized [[technocrat]]s beyond merely non-partisan civil servants (See also [[Wisconsin Idea]] for how this came about).
:::::The early progressives would be Cleveland and TR Roosevelt; the middling progressives would be Colonel House, and [[V.I. Lenin]], who introduced the idea of specialized [[technocrat]]s beyond merely non-partisan civil servants (See also [[Wisconsin Idea]] for how this came about).