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The Transformation of American Liberalism (Hardcover)
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The Transformation of American Liberalism (Hardcover)
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With the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the US
government ushered in a new era of social welfare policies, to
counteract the devastation of The Great Depression. While political
philosophers generally view the welfare state to be built on values
of equality and human dignity, America's politicians, beginning
with Franklin D. Roosevelt, argued on different grounds. From the
beginning, Roosevelt based his defense of the welfare state on the
individualist, or Lockean premises inherent in America's political
culture. As a result, he not only encouraged the United States'
commitment to individualism, but also contributed to distinctively
harsh American stigmatization of welfare recipients. In The
Transformation of American Liberalism, George Klosko explores how
American political leaders have justified social welfare programs
since the 1930s, ultimately showing how their arguments have
contributed to notably ungenerous programs. Students of political
theory note the evolution of liberal political theory between its
origins and major contemporary theorists who justify the values and
social policies of the welfare state. But the transformation of
liberalism in American political culture is incomplete.
Individualist values and beliefs have exerted a continuing hold on
America's leaders, constraining their justificatory arguments. The
paradoxical result may be described as continuing attempts to
justify new social programs without acknowledging incompatibility
between the arguments necessary to do so and American culture's
individualist assumptions. An important reason for the striking
absence of strong and widely recognized arguments for social
welfare programs in American political culture is that its
political leaders did not provide them.
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