"In ten essays, the scholars disentangle and explain theoretical development and the contemporary social impact of these strands of liberalism on the liberal polities of Great Britain and the US. The diversity of pluarlism's challenges to liberalism are carefully dissected, with special attention to the nuances and idiosyncrasies of key thinkers...This collection of well-reasoned, well-argued essays is not for the theoretically timid." -J.R. Pottenger, University of Alabama in Huntsville, CHOICE
1. A history of modern pluralism Mark Bevir; 2. From liberal constitutionalism to pluralism Jacob T. Levy; 3. Guild socialism Marc Stears; 4. Pluralism and method at the turn of the century Avigail Eisenberg; 5. Value pluralism in twentieth-century Anglo-American thought Jan-Werner Müller; 6. Corporatism and its discontents: pluralism, anti-pluralism and Anglo-American industrial relations, c.1930–80 Ben Jackson; 7. The rise and fall of the democratic dogma and the emergence of empirical democratic theory John G. Gunnell; 8. Liberalism, pluralism, multiculturalism: contemporary debates Ruth Abbey; 9. The revival of radical pluralism: associationism and difference Mark Bevir and Toby Reiner; 10. Beyond pluralism? Corporatism, globalization, and the dilemmas of democratic governance Robert Adcock and Mark Vail.
