Thinkers and political figures
Portrait: Pach Brothers, 1904, via Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab) · Public domain
Theodore Roosevelt
- Country
- United States
- Era
- 1858–1919
- Tradition
- Progressivism, national conservatism
Broke up industrial monopolies, created the federal conservation system, and pursued an assertive foreign policy — the clearest case that progressive economics and muscular nationalism can sit in one person.
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Documented positions
Documented positions come from the sources listed. Similarity is this project’s inference from those positions, and is a much weaker claim.
- Antitrust enforcement against Northern Securities and Standard Oil
- Created national forests, parks, monuments and bird reserves covering some 230 million acres
- Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906)
- "Square Deal": government as an honest broker between capital and labour, intervening in the 1902 coal strike
- Big Stick diplomacy, the Roosevelt Corollary and construction of the Panama Canal
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Where it sits on each dimension
Wealth and inequality
44
RedistributionMarket outcomes
Evidence: Well documented
The state in the economy
36
Active stateLimited state
Evidence: Well documented
Tradition and change
62
ContinuityReform
Evidence: Documented
Nation and the world
82
InternationalistNationalist
Evidence: Well documented
Power and its limits
60
Concentrated authorityChecks and pluralism
Evidence: Documented
Environment and growth
82
Production firstProtection first
Evidence: Well documented
Dimensions left unscored, for want of evidence: Crime and punishment, Religion and the state, Personal liberty
Sources
- Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (Osawatomie speech) · 1910
- Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex · 2001
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