The Democratic Reconstruction of the Hegelian State in American Progressive Political Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6401070 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blake Emerson (0000-0002-8739-9661, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 545-574 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670515000571 |
| OpenAlex | W2604260287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
Both critics and defenders of the modern American administrative state have recognized the influence of Hegelian ideas upon the American progressives. But existing scholarship on this connection has not delved into the institutional details of Hegelian political theory and its transformation in progressivism. This article traces the continuities and adaptations between Hegelian and American progressive theories of the administrative state through three conceptual pairs: individual rights and social welfare, civil society and the state, and legislation and execution. For both German Hegelian legal scholars and the American Hegelian progressives, these conceptual pairs staked out the basic normative and institutional tensions underlying the modern state. The progressives, however, gave these concepts a democratic interpretation, and thus sought to involve the public at multiple levels of the policy-making process. This Hegelian progressive theory provides a compelling basis for a public philosophy of the contemporary American state
Democracy · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Interpretation (philosophy · Law and economics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Progressivism · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Welfare state · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |