Progressivism
Treats institutions as revisable responses to public problems. It supports deliberate reform of rules that sustain exclusion, unequal opportunity, or concentrated power.
Foundational doctrines
- Social reform
- Public problem-solving
- Equal opportunity
- Institutional experimentation
Disagreement and variation
Administrative reform and participatory democracy can pull in different directions; the tradition also disputes which changes count as improvements and who should decide. The label is historically broad; early administrative reformers and contemporary rights-oriented progressives differ.
Numerical positions in the interactive model are editorial reference estimates, not scientifically validated measurements.