John Marini - The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science: Transforming the American Regime

Paul Carrese is associate professor of political science at the United States Air Force Academy. He has been a Rhodes Scholar and held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Program on Constitutional Government, Harvard University. He is author of The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism.

Eric R. Claeys is assistant professor at St. Louis University School of Law. A former clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, he is author of monographs and scholarly articles on constitutional law. He is preparing a book on zoning and eminent domain.

Edward J. Erler is professor of political science at California State University at San Bernardino. He is author of The American Polity and has forthcoming a collection of essays on American politics. He is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute.

Tiffany R. Jones is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas. She is preparing a book on the threats to the First Amendment in campaign finance reform. Her work emphasizes the hold of Progressivism on current political thought and practice.

John Marini is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and an associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is co-editor of The Imperial Congress: Crisis in the Separation of Powers and author of The Politics of Budget Control: Congress, the Presidency, and the Growth of the Administrative State . From 1987-1988 he was a special assistant to Chairman Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Ken Masugi is Director of the Center for Local Government at the Claremont Institute. He is co-author, co-editor, or editor of seven books on American politics and political thought, including most recently The California Republic . His teaching positions have included the John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the United States Air Force Academy. From 1986-1990 he served as a special assistant to Chairman Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Will Morrisey is assistant professor of history and political science at Hillsdale College. His most recent books are Self-Government, The American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War and Regime Change: What It Is, Why It Matters. He is currently working on a study of self-government in the political thought of the presidents of the Progressive era.

Peter C. Myers is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He is author of Our Only Star and Compass: Locke and the Struggle for Political Rationality. He is writing a book on the thought and statesmanship of Frederick Douglass.

Larry Peterman is professor of political science at the University of California, Davis, and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. He has written extensively on Dante and on Machiavelli, among other major political theorists. Recently he has been studying family privacy in modern political thought.

John G. West is associate professor of political science at Seattle Pacific University and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute, where he directs the program on religion and civic life. He is author of The Politics of Revelation and Reason.

Thomas G. West is professor of politics at the University of Dallas. A senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, he is author of Vindicating the Founders and Platos Apology of Socrates . He is co-editor of Shakespeare as Political Thinker and most recently of Challenges to the American Founding and The American Founding and the Social Compact. He is co-translator and editor of Four Texts on Socrates.

Scot J. Zentner is professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino. He has published extensively on the American party system and Progressivism. He is currently editing a collection of essays on Harry V. Jaffas thought.