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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. This volume shows 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.
Trade Review"After Liberalism is no angry screed, but a dense, probing work full of insight from the author's seeming encyclopedic knowledge of Western thought."--World "The central fact of the nineteenth century was the emergence of the working class. The central fact of the twentieth century is the emergence of a managerial "New Class" elite, reshaping all modern democracies in its own interest. Gottfried's is a gold-standard analysis of this extraordinary phenomenon, heavily encrusted with sparkling jewels of intellectual history."--Peter Brimelow, Senior Editor, Forbes Magazine "Well-written, very learned, and informative."--Paul Seaton, Society
Table of ContentsIntroduction vii CHAPTER ONE In Search of a Liberal Essence 3 CHAPTER TWO Liberalism vs. Democracy 30 CHAPTER THREE Public Administration and Liberal Democracy 49 CHAPTER FOUR Pluralism and Liberal Democracy 72 CHAPTER FIVE Mass Democracy and the Populist Alternative 110 CONCLUSION 135 Notes 143 Index 177
