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1 online resource (200 pages ]. |
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New forum books
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New forum books.
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| Summary |
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's "liberals" have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and "lifestyle" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze these historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Welfare state.
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Welfare state. |
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Public administration.
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Public administration. |
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Social engineering.
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Social engineering. |
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Liberalism.
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Liberalism. |
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Democracy.
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Democracy. |
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Cultural pluralism.
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Cultural pluralism. |
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Populism.
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Populism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gottfried, Paul Edward. After Liberalism : Mass Democracy in the Managerial State. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001 9780691089829 |
| ISBN |
9781400822898 (electronic book) |
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1400822890 (electronic book) |
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9780691089829 |
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0691089825 |
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0691059837 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691059839 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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