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Liberal Responses to Populism
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Liberal Responses to Populism

by Karen Horn, Stefan Kolev, Julian F. Müller
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
10h 14m
English
De Gruyter
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Part II: Populism – Inside the Political Arena

The metamorphosis of liberalism: from an elite project to an ideology critique of democratic policy

Gerhard Wegner

Over the past 200 years, liberalism has undergone a profound transformation. The 19th century was the Golden Age of Liberalism. The liberal movement had a well-defined political and cultural agenda aimed at transforming the political and economic order inherited from late absolutism. Its economic agenda referred to the dissolution of the remnants of late absolutism that prevented all social classes, although in different ways, from pursuing their economic interests as they saw fit. Various corporate state rules restricted economic freedom. Getting rid of these restrictions ...

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ISBN: 9783111575681