Robert Putnam's Irving Kristol Turn

A confounding element of Putnam and Garrett's narrative is the role played by populism. Because populism had played a significant part in the Progressive era, Putnam and Garrett obviously do not want to ignore it. According to Putnam, "the rise of populist movements and parties" and t...

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Published in:Reviews in American history 2022-09, Vol.50 (3), p.317-323
Main Author: Li, Haimo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communitarianism
Culture
Individualism
Inequality
Liberalism
Narcissism
Partisanship
Politics
Populism
Progressive Era
Progressivism
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Summary:A confounding element of Putnam and Garrett's narrative is the role played by populism. Because populism had played a significant part in the Progressive era, Putnam and Garrett obviously do not want to ignore it. According to Putnam, "the rise of populist movements and parties" and the Progressive Era reforms were basically chain events: populist movements came first, then progressive reforms followed (p. 61). [...]we can safely assume that Hoover's and Dewey's peculiar kinds of "individualism" are still pretty much acceptable in Putnam's assessment. According to Putnam and Garrett, the 1960s began quite well but ended badly (and the "Me Decade" of the 1970s was even worse).
ISSN:0048-7511
1080-6628
1080-6628
DOI:10.1353/rah.2022.0033