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Charles A. Beard's Vision of Government: Rethinking American Democracy in the Machine Age
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2019
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Charles A. Beard's trajectory as a political scientist and expert on municipal government has not yet been fully examined. Based on a close analysis of his teaching at Columbia University and his contributions to city government in New York and Tokyo, this article outlines the development of Beard's vision of American democracy. It argues that, unlike most progressives, Beard refrained from endorsing direct democracy measures as a blueprint for reform, focusing instead on streamlining the American system of government to incorporate, in a transparent fashion, both political parties and interest groups. This article showcases Beard's conception of politics and explains how pluralism and functionalism underpinned his proposals for efficient government.
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- The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 122 - 149
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- Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2019
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