In The Name of Liberalism
Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 September 1999
- ISBN 9780198296096
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages354 pages
- Size 241x163x24 mm
- Weight 664 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Why have British and North American governments adopted illiberal social policies during this century? In the Name of Liberalism looks at this question by examining examples of illiberal policies by the British and US governments this century. The author argues that government accommodation of illiberal policies are a paradox of a liberal democratic framework and that there is a need to question further the internal workings of entrenched democracies.
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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.
...fascinating and timely new book - Robert Taylor. The Spectator. 20/March/1999
Table of Contents:
PART 1. POLITICS, POLICY MAKING AND IDEAS.
Liberalism and Illiberal Social Policy
Liberal Democracy and Policy-Making: Knowledge and the Formation of Social Policy
PART 2. LIBERAL UNREASON
Cutting off the Worst: Voluntary Sterilisation in Britain in the 1930s
The Gravest Menace?: Immigration Policy
PART 3. LIBERAL AMELIORATION AND COLLECTIVISM
Reconditioning the Unemployed: the Labour Camps in Britain
This Kind of Work Must Go On: The US Civilian Conservation Corps
PART 4. THE LIBERAL COERCIVE CONTRACT
Aroused Like One From Sleep: From New Poor Law to Workfare in Britain
A Second Chance, Not a Way of Life: Welfare as Workfare in the US
PART 5. CONCLUSION
The Future of Social Citizenship
