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Author Gottfried, Paul, 1941- author.

Title After Liberalism : Mass Democracy in the Managerial State / Paul Edward Gottfried
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1999]

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Description 1 online resource (200 pages }
Series New forum books
New forum books.
Contents Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents
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
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 31, 2020)
Subject Welfare state.
Public administration.
Social engineering.
Liberalism.
Democracy.
Cultural pluralism.
Populism.
Free enterprise.
liberalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Executive Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
Free enterprise
Cultural pluralism
Democracy
Liberalism
Populism
Public administration
Social engineering
Welfare state
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400822898
1400822890
9781400811816
1400811813
1282935224
9781282935228
9786612935220
6612935227
0691089825
9780691089829