{"product_id":"after-liberalism-mass-democracy-in-the-managerial-state-paperback","title":"After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Edward Gottfried\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's \"liberals\" have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and \"lifestyle\" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze these 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout the western world, increasingly uprooted populations unthinkingly accept centralized controls in exchange for a variety of entitlements. In their frightening passivity, Gottfried locates the quandary for traditionalist and populist adversaries of the welfare state. 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Although I disagree with the author on many of his points, I strongly recommend it. Gottfried's thesis is refreshingly novel, strongly advanced, and clearly presented. Whether one is interested in the future of the welfare state or family values, or the economic and social future of America, this is a book one wishes to read.\"\u003cb\u003e--Amitai Etzioni, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Golden Rule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This brilliant and disquieting book should reshape current debates and be essential reading for all who seek to understand them.\"\u003cb\u003e--Elizabeth Fox-Genovese\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This thoughtful work reflects the intellectual qualities of an erudite political philosopher whose knowledge of European political philosophy in the twentieth century is particularly impressive.\"\u003cb\u003e--John Lukacs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Edward Gottfried\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eCarl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, The Search for Historical Meaning;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Conservative Movement.\u003c\/i\u003e Editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eThis World, \u003c\/i\u003e he is also a senior editor of \u003ci\u003eTelos\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHumanitas.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.22 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 22, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354314817785,"sku":"9780691089829","price":68.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TkxuZ3ZHNWFzRHV3d3dmOWtZbmljQT09.webp?v=1769833686","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/after-liberalism-mass-democracy-in-the-managerial-state-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}