600 Pages
by
Routledge
600 Pages
by
Routledge
608 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2004. This study of the British Political Tradition will be complete in four volumes of which The Ideological Heritage is the second. This is an attempt to show how the basic tension between libertarianism and collectivism is reflected in arguments of state; how our three main political doctrines have both stimulated and reacted to the growth of government intervention and the proliferation of public agency; and how they have dealt with the problems of individual liberty involved.
Part 1 The Range of Ideas; Chapter 1 Doctrine and Interpretation; Part 2 The Ambivalence of Liberalism; Chapter 2 Introductory Themes; Chapter 3 Cobden and Spencer Versus the State; Chapter 4 The Transition to Collectivism; Chapter 5 The End of Laissez Faire; Part 3 Conservatism and its Modes; Chapter 6 Conservatism; Chapter 7 Tory Paternalism and the Welfare State; Chapter 8 The Libertarian Strand; Chapter 9 Decline and Renewal; Part 4 The Duality of Socialism; Chapter 10 Socialism; Chapter 11 The Fabian Model; Chapter 12 Socialism and Freedom; Chapter 13 Socialism and the Great Leviathan;
Biography
W. H. Greenleaf
