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The proximate answer, I think, influence of Mugwump/progressive tradition with its emphasis on civility, civic mindedness, process and its eschewal of partisanship & excercise of power on behalf of faction.
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Who was the ideas man, though? Is there an unrecognized ideologist here?
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I don't know if the Mugwumps had a theorist per se -- more a class affinity than an ideology. There's some of this in maybe (from a later era) Walter Lippmann.
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