Classical Liberalism And Civil Society

Author : Charles K. Rowley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Liberalism and Civil Society written by Charles K. Rowley and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work brings together four essays (available separately in paperback) which provide a defence of the concept of classical liberalism in modern civil society. The essays cover: a defence of liberalism; lessons for citizens of a new democracy; contracts in eastern Europe; and ethnic diversity.

Author : Paul Dragos Aligica
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190267038
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective written by Paul Dragos Aligica and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctive perspective on governance: the building blocks -- Classical liberalism : delineating its theory of governance -- Function, structure, and process at the private-public interface -- Dynamic governance : the polycentrism process and knowledge processes -- Public choice and public administration : the confluence -- Public administration and public choice : charting the field -- Public choice, public administration, and self-governance : the Ostromian confluence -- Heterogeneity, coproduction, and polycentric governance : the Ostroms' public choice institutionalism revisited -- Framing the applied level : themes, issue areas, and cases -- Metropolitan governance : polycentric solutions for complex problems -- Independent regulatory agencies and their reform : an exercise in institutional imagination -- Polycentric stakeholder analysis : corporate governance and corporate social responsibility -- Conclusions: governance and public management : a vindication of the classical-liberal perspective?

Author : Eamonn Butler
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
ISBN 13 : 0255367082
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Liberalism – A Primer written by Eamonn Butler and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This primer aims to provide a straightforward introduction to the principles, personalities and key developments in classical liberalism. It is designed for students and lay readers who may understand the general concepts of social, political and economic freedom, but who would like a systematic presentation of its essential elements.

Author : Michael J. Douma
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498536115
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is Classical Liberal History? written by Michael J. Douma and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the making of history. History written in the classical liberal tradition emerged largely in the nineteenth century, when the field of history was first professionalized in Europe and the Americas. Professional historical research was then imbued with liberal values, which included rigorous attention to the sources, historicist suspicion of an ultimate mover, an honest and dispassionate rational outlook, and humility towards what could be known. Above all, liberals wanted to chart the history of liberty, warn against threats to liberty, and defend it in an evolving political world. They believed history was real, and that it had lessons to teach, but that these lessons could not provide sufficient knowledge to predict the future or reorganize society around a central plan. This book demonstrates how the classical liberal tradition in historical writing persists to this day, but how it is often neglected and due for renewal. The book contrasts the classical liberal view on history with conservative, progressive, Marxist, and post-modern views. Each of the eleven chapters address a different historical topic, from the development of classical liberalism in nineteenth century America to the the history of civil liberties and civil rights that stemmed from this tradition. Authors give particular attention to the importance of social and economic analysis. Each contributor was chosen as an expert in their field to provide a historiographical overview of their subject, and to explain what the classical liberal contribution to this historiography has been and should be. Authors then provide guidance towards possible tools of analysis and related research topics that future historians working in the classical liberal tradition could take up. The authors wish to call upon other historians to recognize the important contributions to historical understanding that have come and can be provided by the insights of classical liberalism.

Author : Nancy L. Rosenblum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228396
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Government written by Nancy L. Rosenblum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil Society and Government brings together an unprecedented array of political, ethical, and religious perspectives to shed light on the complex and much-debated relationship between civil society and the state. Some argue that civil society is a bulwark against government; others see it as an indispensable support for government. Civil society has been portrayed both as a independent of the state and as dependent upon it. This book reveals the extraordinary diversity of views on the subject by examining how civil society has been treated in classical liberalism, liberal egalitarianism, critical theory, feminism, natural law, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Confucianism. The volume draws on the work of eminent scholars to address six questions: In terms of function and consequences, does it matter where the line is drawn between civil society and the state? What is the relationship of civil society to the state? In what contexts and under what conditions should government interact with individuals directly or instead indirectly through communal associations? What are the prerogatives and duties of citizenship, and what is the role of civil society in forming good citizens? How should a society handle the conflicts that sometimes arise between the demands of citizenship and those of membership in the non-governmental associations of civil society? A theoretical introduction by the editors--political theorist Nancy Rosenblum and legal scholar Robert Post--and a conclusion by religious ethicist Richard Miller, tie the book together. In addition to Rosenblum, the contributors are Kenneth Baynes, David Biale, John Coleman, Farhad Kazemi, John Kelsay, William Galston, Will Kymlicka, Tom Palmer, Fred Miller, Susan Moller Okin, Peter Nosco, Henry Rosemont, Steven Scalet, David Schmidtz, William Sullivan, Max Stackhouse, Stephen White, and Noam Zohar.

Author : Mark Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136727655
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society in Liberal Democracy written by Mark Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course of developing the model, he also provides a thorough account of the meaning and use of "civil society" in contemporary scholarship as well as a critical review of rival models, including those found in the work of scholars such as John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, Michael Walzer, Benjamin Barber, and Nancy Rosenblum. Jensen's own ideal treats civil society as both the context in which citizens live out their comprehensive views of the good life as well as the context in which citizens learn to be good deliberative democrats. According to his idealization, groups of citizens in civil society are actively engaged in a grand conversation about the nature of the good life. Their commitment to this conversation grounds dispositions of epistemic humility, tolerance, curiosity, and moderation. Moreover, their regard for the grand conversation explains their interest in deliberative democracy and their regard for democratic virtues, principles, and practices. Jensen is not a naive utopian, however; he argues that this ideal must be realized in stages, that it faces a variety of barriers, and that it cannot be realized without luck.

Author : Charles Siegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978872861
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Liberalism written by Charles Siegel and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Classical Liberalism is a must read. For one thing, readers should not deprive themselves of the pure enjoyment of this engaging and clear-minded narrative of a broad swath of history. For another, anyone concerned about the state of democratic civil society in the West, and worried about its future, cannot afford to neglect this disarming analysis." - Prof. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Syracuse University According to the conventional history, liberalism went through two phases, laissez-faire liberalism and modern liberalism. This book rediscoveers a lost tradition of liberal thought and shows that liberalism went through three phases: Classical liberalism believed in positive freedom, the right of people to manage their own affairs and to govern themselves. Victorian liberalism had two aspects. Laissez-faire liberalism accommodated the industrial economy by inventing the ideal of negative freedom: freedom was simply absence of government control. There was also a more idealistic aspect of Victorian liberalism which is largely forgotten today but which was central to the abolitionist and feminist movements. Modernist liberalism kept the laissez-faire idea of negative freedom but applied it to a narrow realm of personal behavior. It expected centralized organizations to make important decisions, and it emphasized personal freedom. Laissez-faire and modernist liberalism redefined freedom as negative in order to accommodate economic growth. To revitalize the liberal tradition, we need to revive the ideal of positive freedom.

Author : Robert Higgs
Publisher : Independent Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Liberty written by Robert Higgs and published by Independent Institute. This book was released on 2006 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Seminal classical liberal thinkers such as John Locke and Adam Smith stressed the inherent worth of the individual, inalienable rights, the rule of law, and the benevolent consequences of the cooperative, peaceful pursuit of one's own happiness. These ideas became the intellectual scaffolding for much of humankind's most fundamental civil institutions and achievements. The Challenge of Liberty restores the ideas and ideals of classical liberalism as the intellectual and cultural roots of free societies regarding individual rights, human dignity, market processes, and the rule of law. In so doing, this unique book reveals why nationalism, bureaucracy, and dehumanization are foils of classical liberalism, including as they affect such diverse issues as defense, healthcare, education, and commerce. - Back cover.

Author : Stephen Turner
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761954699
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberal Democracy 3.0 written by Stephen Turner and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-06-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '... a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. It ranges across central concerns in the fields of social theory, political theory, and science studies and engages with the ideas of key classical and contemporary thinkers' - Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth

Author : Kevin Vallier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190887222
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trust in a Polarized Age written by Kevin Vallier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans today don't trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did, fueling destructive ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. In Trust in a Polarized Age, political philosopher Kevin Vallier argues that to build social trust and reduce polarization, we must strengthen liberal democratic institutions--high-quality governance, procedural fairness, markets, social welfare programs, freedom of association, and democracy. Theseinstitutions not only create trust, they do so justly, by recognizing and respecting our basic rights.