January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
10h 14m
English
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank the editors, an anonymous reviewer, Alexandre Chirat, and the participants of a NOUS Spotlight discussion in July 2023 for their most helpful comments and suggestions.
For several decades, what has been called the “liberal cosmopolitan-minded urban elites” set the political agenda of Western democracies (Dold and Krieger 2019a). They aimed at personal freedom and upward social mobility by means of a meritocratic system that was safeguarded by a combination of a competitive market economy, a liberal and open democracy, and the rule of law ...
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