Example sentences for: progressivism

How can you use “progressivism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Where he tries to lay out a policy agenda, as in his recent book The Future of American Progressivism (co-written with Roberto Mangabeira Unger), I think he oscillates between dreary, conventional ideas (public financing of campaigns, class-based rather race-based affirmative action, a consumption tax) and utterly impractical ones (a modified parliamentary system, explicit economic redistribution, mandatory voting).

  • Ignorant Perot critics called his technocratic approach "fascism," when it was old-fashioned American progressivism.

  • She thus shows the elitist, paternalist (and shallow) roots of Franklin's progressivism, his tendency to compromise, the personalism of his program.

  • Actually, the Reform Party is splitting along the fault line between American progressivism and American populism--rival traditions represented most recently by presidential candidates John Anderson (1980) and George Wallace (1968).


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