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In this book, Lars Schoultz explores the culture of "improvement" that defines the attitudes and values shaping all United States policies towards Latin America in the past and present. Schoultz's aim is to find the sources of this political and intellectual culture which has informed our relations with our southern neighbors and which continues to do so despite its faulty premises and its failure to effect change and transformation. Schoultz focuses on two period in the past as critical to embedding the culture and policies of improvement: the Progressive Era, which established the belief in "uplifting" others for their betterment, and the Cold War Era, which established the institutions for sustaining and implementing the process of uplifting a people and state. In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans is a powerful historical indictment of a "constellation of beliefs" that has been a central part of Washington's foreign policy establishment and culture. The notion that the United States knows better than its allies and neighbors what is best for each of them resonates beyond Latin America and underlies much of the United States' foreign policies around the world.--

Progressivism (United States politics)

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Progressisme (Amerikaanse politiek) --- Progressisme (Canadese politiek) --- Progressisme (Politique américaine) --- Progressisme (Politique canadienne) --- Progressivism (Canadian politics) --- Progressivism (United States politics) --- Environmental policy --- Environmentalists --- Progressivism (Canadian politics). --- Progressivism (United States politics). --- United States --- Canada --- Environmental policy - United States. --- Environmental policy - Canada. --- Environmentalists - United States. --- Environmentalists - Canada.

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The Case for Gridlock explains how, in an effort to make the system more egalitarian and forward thinking, American Progressivism led to the creation of government institutions that increased the political advantages of superior organization, thereby enabling 'special interests' to dominate the policy process. The book makes the case for the Constitutional Principle, showing how gridlock-prone institutions lead to better representation of broader interests.

Pressure groups --- Lobbying --- Progressivism (United States politics) --- Constitutional history --- Administrative agencies --- United States

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African Americans - United States--Race relations

African Americans --- United States --- Race relations --- Civilization [Anglo-Saxon ] --- Progress --- Progressivism (United States politics)

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Economic schools --- Economics --- United States --- History --- Progressivism (United States politics) --- Eugenics --- Economic policy --- To 1933 --- Social conditions --- 1865-1918