How did progressives believe that the reformers they proposed to municipal government would improve society

The Progressives believed then as they do today, that this rapidly changing society required the establishment of a “new order”. Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, John Dewey and Charles Merriam were early political leaders of the movement. 

Below are convictions did progressive reformers share

1)believed that industrialization and urbanization had produced serious social disorders, from city slums to corporate abuses, 2)they believed that new ideas and methods were required to correct these problems, 3)they rejected the ideology of individualism in favor of broader concepts of social responsibility, and sought to achieve social order through organization and efficiency, and 4)they believed that government itself, as the organized agent of public responsibility, should address social and economic problems