After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
- ISBN-10
- 0691089825
- ISBN-13
- 9780691089829
- Series
- After Liberalism
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-07-22
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Paul Edward Gottfried
Description
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.
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