Week 3. (1) Social Liberalism: Liberalism Merged with Socialism? (2) Liberalism Worldwide.
L. T. Hobhouse, “The Heart of Liberalism,” “The State and the Individual,” Liberalism, pp. 63-88
Guido de Ruggiero, “What Liberalism Is,” History of European Liberalism, pp. 347-369
John Charvet and Elisa Kaczynska-Nay, “Introduction: What Is Liberalism?” The Liberal Projet and Human Rights (Cambridge UP, 2008): 1-16
FIRST SHORT-PAPER ASSIGNMENT DUE: Read this book review by Thaddeus Russell of Michael Lind, The Next American Nation (1995). In less than 350 words, write a diagnoses of Russell's own ideology. What is it? What are its main doctrines?
So you'd like to see a social-liberalism outlook on the world...
Check out Britain's Guardian newspaper, The American Prospect, or Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. (The Nation, which from the 2000s through the beginning of the Great Recession looked almost
indistinguishable from a social liberal magazine, seems recently to have recommitted firmly to social democracy.)
So you'd like to learn about the varieties of black liberalism...
Check out Michael C. Dawson, "A Vision of Freedom Larger than America Is Prepared to Accept?" Black Visions, pp. 238-315
So you'd like to learn about social-liberal political groups...
Liberal Party of Canada (party elites' ideology is social-liberalism mixed with multiculturalism), US Democratic Party (party elites' ideology is social-liberalism mixed with multiculturalism), Social Liberal Forum (social-liberal group within the UK's Liberal Democrat Party)
So you'd like to learn about social-liberal think tanks...
The Brookings Institution (US), Center for American Progress (US), Policy Network (UK; half social-liberal, half social-democratic)
So you'd like a history of social liberalism's dark underbelly...
Check out Paul Gottfried, After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State (Princeton UP, 2001)