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In The Name of Liberalism - Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain (Hardcover)
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In The Name of Liberalism - Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain (Hardcover)
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Why have British and North American governments adopted illiberal
social policies during this century? In the Name of Liberalism
investigates examples of social policy in Britain and the United
States that conflict with liberal democratic ideals. The book
examines the use of eugenic arguments in the 1920s and 1930s, the
use of work camps in the 1930s as a response to mass unemployment
and the introduction of work-for-welfare programs since the 1980s.
The book argues that existing accounts of American and British
political development neglect how illiberal social policies are
intertwined in the creation of modern liberal democratic
institutions. Such policies are, paradoxically, justified in terms
of the liberal democratic framework itself. In the light of the
books research, the author suggests that there is a need to know
more about the internal workings of democracies to justify the
claim that liberal democracy represents the most attractive set of
political institutions.
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