The Progressive Studies Program is a unique interdisciplinary project exploring the history, intellectual foundations, and public understanding of progressivism in America.
The program seeks to increase public awareness, educate decision makers, and develop thoughtful and honest debates about progressive ideas and values, through lectures, articles, public events including our Progressivism on Tap series, book discussions like our Progressive Authors Series, and training seminars with activists and young people.
The program's public research component will complement these discussions by documenting and tracking American ideological attitudes and demographic trends across the country. Read more about the Progressive Studies Program.
Featured Content
Ruy Teixeira on the Path to 270 Electoral Votes:
Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Ruy Teixeira outlines the demographic and economic factors that will drive the 2012 presidential election.
The Path to 270:
Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin explain how the shifting demographic balance of the American electorate, and the objective reality and voter perception of the economy in key battleground states will both play huge roles in determining the 2012 presidential election.
The Constitution Is Inherently Progressive:
John Podesta and John Halpin on how the values in the Constitution are those that both progressives and conservatives should cherish and protect.
Obama’s New Populism Isn’t Alienating Moderates:
Ruy Teixeira on Obama's new political strategy.
The Origins and Evolution of Progressive Economics:
Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin examine several core assumptions that broadly define a progressive approach to economics in terms of theory, values, and practice.
Economy:
Ruy Teixeira explains why Americans are operationally Keynesian in The New Republic.