0 someone who tries to improve a system or law by changing it: --
a social reformer
1 a person who works for political, social, or religious change --
2 someone who plans or supports changes to a system, law, organization, etc. in order to make it more modern or effective: --
Other leading tariff reformers were more tough-minded when it came to the question of what they could offer the agricultural community.
At different moments public health reformers depicted workingclass women as either the most vulnerable group or as the primary agents of contagion.
This historiographical division is matched by the divided opinions of reformers at the time.
Finally, the political and economic upheaval undermined many of the principles the reformers stood for.
Safety experts, reformers, and other actors in this story rarely thought of themselves as operating on the periphery of the world of science and mathematics.
Other contributors concentrate on imports, transfers and the travels of reformers.
Thirdly, and perhaps least recognized, there was an important policy logic to reformers' strategies in the veto-free/hierarchical regimes.
The book begins with three valuable theoretical lessons for pension reformers of all stripes.
