Centrist democratic ideologies

Taking a chronological approach, this book challenges established economistic and ideologistic narratives of neoliberalism in Britain by charting the gradual diffusion of an increasingly interventionist neoliberal governmental rationality in British politics since the late 1970s, and the various means by which the project has furnished itself with a hegemonic basis for its popular support.

John Locke is widely perceived as a foundational figure within the liberal tradition.

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics.

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics.

The diverse coalition of forces that came to be known as the Liberal party dominated British politics in the period between 1830 and 1886.

Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror', violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes.

Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror', violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes.

The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war.

The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war.

Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this collection offers a thought-provoking critique of the role of the concept of reasonableness in liberal political theory, focusing on the proposed relationship between reasonableness and the establishment and preservation of a just and stable liberal polity.

Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this collection offers a thought-provoking critique of the role of the concept of reasonableness in liberal political theory, focusing on the proposed relationship between reasonableness and the establishment and preservation of a just and stable liberal polity.

In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept.

In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept.

What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty?

What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty?

Contemporary debates about civility are shaped by the dominant liberal and secular narratives of a peaceful world of sovereign nation-states.

Contemporary debates about civility are shaped by the dominant liberal and secular narratives of a peaceful world of sovereign nation-states.

The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that governments continuously seek to steer their economies rather than leaving them to free markets.

The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that governments continuously seek to steer their economies rather than leaving them to free markets.

Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful.

Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful.

First published in 1938, these lectures argue that liberality is the foundation of civilization.

First published in 1938, these lectures argue that liberality is the foundation of civilization.

First published in 1921, Gilbert Murray's treatise considers a largely euro-centric foreign policy during the inter-war period.

First published in 1921, Gilbert Murray's treatise considers a largely euro-centric foreign policy during the inter-war period.

Here is the first book to cover the history of British Liberalism from its founding doctrines in the later eighteenth century to the final dissolution of the Liberal party into the Liberal Democrats in 1988.

Here is the first book to cover the history of British Liberalism from its founding doctrines in the later eighteenth century to the final dissolution of the Liberal party into the Liberal Democrats in 1988.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint.

The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint.

Debates about children's rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader social and political community, and the moral and political status of the child within it.

Debates about children's rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader social and political community, and the moral and political status of the child within it.

First published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman.

First published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman.

Liberal Education, once the whole of American Higher Education, has been displaced by technical training and career-oriented majors.

Liberal Education, once the whole of American Higher Education, has been displaced by technical training and career-oriented majors.

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary.

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary.

Must freedom be sacrificed to achieve ecological sustainability - or vice versa?

Must freedom be sacrificed to achieve ecological sustainability - or vice versa?

Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999.

Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999.

Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory.

Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory.

In contemporary American political culture, claims of American exceptionalism and anxieties over its prospects have resurged as an overarching theme in national political discourse.

In contemporary American political culture, claims of American exceptionalism and anxieties over its prospects have resurged as an overarching theme in national political discourse.

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism.

Liberal peacebuilding too often builds neither peace nor Liberalism.

The volume analyzes the long-term trajectories of change in the capitalist models of the UK, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and the United States.

The volume analyzes the long-term trajectories of change in the capitalist models of the UK, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and the United States.