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Article: After Liberalism Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
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- Freeman
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- October 1, 2000
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After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
by Paul Edward Gottfried
Princeton University Press 1999 186 pages $27.95
Americans have given up freedom and self-government for a mess of pottage. Modern "liberalism," argues political science professor Paul Gottfried in his insightful new book, rests on a "patricide" of the older liberalism. Whereas liberalism and democracy were once opposed concepts, they are now conflated, to the great detriment of the former.
Meanwhile, "democracy," which replaced liberal republicanism, gave way to irresponsible centralized bureaucracies. Thus "liberal democracy" is "less and less" liberal or democratic by any standards. The liberals' ...