Download or read book Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State written by Robert Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress, Progressive Reform and the New American State uses a series of case-studies of reform legislation in Congress during the early twentieth century to explore the nature of progressivism and the processes of political change which resulted in the establishment of the modern American state. Among the topics covered are railroad regulation, labor relations, social policy of the District of Columbia, Republican insurgency, and the nature of Democratic progressivism. This work will be of interest to students of twentieth-century political history, the history of Congress, and the origins of the modern American state.