In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain

ISBN-13: 9780198296096 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 360 str.

Desmond S. King

Opis

This book investigates examples of social policy in Britain and the United States that conflict with liberal democratic ideals. It examines the use of eugenic arguments in the 1920s and 1930s, the use of work camps in the 1930s, and the introduction of work-for-welfare programs since the 1980s. The author argues that government accommodation of illiberal policies are a paradox of a liberal democratic framework.

Recenzje

Richly researched and suggestive new book... its case studies,,, make vivid the complex of interests and opinions that have gone into the formation of public policy in twentieth-century liberal democracy.

O autorze

Desmond King is a Professor of Politics and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.