ABSTRACT

Liberalism and its Practice brings together leading authorities who provide an excellent insight into the meaning and practice of liberalism. This book explores current debates surrounding liberalism at the end of the twentieth century and what it has to offer in practice. Its focus is two of liberalism's greatest emerging challenges: multiculturalism and states struggling with the transition to democracy. It considers considers the significant tensions that these pressures bring to liberal frameworks and asks what the viable alternatives are.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Liberalism between promise and practice

part |49 pages

Liberalism at the end of the century

chapter |8 pages

Squaring the circle

Prosperity, civility and liberty

chapter |11 pages

Hayek in Chile

part |39 pages

Liberalism in multicultural societies

part |47 pages

Alternatives to liberalism

chapter |15 pages

Group hatreds and democracy 1

chapter |19 pages

The civic argument for socialism

chapter |11 pages

Coimnunitarianism

Left, right and centre