abstract:Marc Stears (born 1971) is a British political thinker and Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of University College, Oxford. His published works have focussed mainly on the development of progressive political movements in the UKStears, Marc, "Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State: Ideologies of Reform in the United States and Britain, 1909-1926", 2006 and the USA.