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It should not surprise anyone that democracies can become illiberal; it was one of the classical critiques of ancient democracies. Is the contemporary backlash against liberal democracy merely the same old story, or are we witnessing something unprecedented ? The author argues that the contemporary revival of absolutist populism combines the historically familiar with new technologies to produce a highly contagious new synthesis that threatens basic liberal norms. He examines how the economic crisis blocked social mobility and awakened the dark, dormant political passions exploited by demagogues. He argues that this slide toward 'neo-illiberal democracy' can only be countered if we hard-headedly institute policies that can dampen down populist passions and strengthen liberal institutional barriers against them.

DEMOCRACY --- LIBERALISM --- POPULISM --- Liberalism

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Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century-fascism, communism, and liberalism-only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history.Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.

LIBERALISM --- LIBERALISM--HISTORY --- Political systems --- Liberalism --- History --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences

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Socialism. --- Liberalism. --- Socialisme --- Libéralisme --- 141.8 --- 329.14 --- socialisme --- politique --- urss --- politiek --- ussr --- ursspolitiek --- Libéralisme

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Terrorism. --- Liberalism. --- Terrorisme --- Libéralisme --- Liberalism --- Terrorism --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Libéralisme

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Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy" - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to the next - a new political-economic order was devised and the postwar social contract was torn up and written anew.In this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our own times, Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy, and Western history with it, was profoundly re-imagined when the postwar Golden Age ended. As the institutions of liberal rule were reinvented, a new generation of politicians emerged: Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterrand, Kohl. The late twentieth-century heyday they oversaw carried the Western democracies triumphantly to victory in the Cold War and into the economic boom of the 1990s. But equally it led them into the fiasco of Iraq, to the high drama of the financial crisis in 2007/8, and ultimately to the anti-liberal surge of our own times.The present crisis of liberalism enjoins us to revisit these as yet unscripted decades. The era we have all been living through is closing out, democracy is turning on its axis once again. As this panoramic history poignantly reminds us, the choices we make going forward require us first to come to terms with where we have been.

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