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Liberalism in sentence

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Those who try to reconcile the two would limit modernization to the narrowly economic sphere end up combining economic liberalism with old-style social collectivism.
With migrant numbers sharply down, the current political crisis is obviously symptomatic of a broader existential battle between empathetic liberalism and populist illiberalism.
Unlike in the heyday of liberalism, money from the world's rich countries simply is not going to give peripheral economies the priceless gift of rapid, successful development.
His turn to economic liberalism flies in the face of a long record of support for state-driven development.
Erhard's vision of a social market economy was a third way, an alternative to both large-scale state intervention and the risks of laissez-faire liberalism.
But the Republican Party has moved far to the right of Obama’s moderate liberalism, and Romney has been pulled along with it.
But sound economics is not enough to give liberalism an edge in the fight against populism.
True, Russian liberalism has contributed to its own demise, by its incompetence and factionalism.
By both omission and commission, the West cut the ground from under Russian political liberalism, enabling the ascendancy of Putinism.
He sees the failings of liberalism as particularly pernicious in postcommunist countries.
By illiberal democracy I mean a system where, though governments are elected in free (but not always fair) elections, they still fail to respect the basic principles and values of "constitutional liberalism," including the rule of law, division of power, an independent judiciary, and respect and protection of human rights and freedoms.
In developed countries, such values have been nurtured by decades of functioning "constitutional liberalism," including, as the author Fareed Zakaria noted, regimes that can be called "liberal autocracies," such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
On the contrary, populists view minority rights, separation of government powers, and independent media – all staples of liberalism – as an attack on majority rule, and therefore on democracy itself.
Although he claims to oppose economic liberalism, he is a product of the political liberties that it promotes and feeds on the benefits generated by the market economy.
The failure of state plans and projects is overlooked because of the small but expanding internal market, which is invigorated by de facto economic liberalism involving the growth of smuggling and drug traffic.
This is the paradox of twenty-first-century socialism: economic liberalism is the foundation for a policy that aspires to replace it.
Unlike in the English-speaking world, liberalism has never been really popular on the European continent, and the conservatives have always appealed to the patriotic and religious feelings of their supporters.
His program spoke to genuine concerns of ordinary people--defending lifestyle-liberalism against religious orthodoxy, for instance; advocating feminism and economic liberalism against benighted prejudices; and strengthening security against terrorism.
It requires measures that do not come easily to citizens, groups, and authorities steeped in a tradition of liberalism and tolerance.
The conflict with the market resulted from the unrestrained liberalism of the nineteenth century, best defined by the famous phrase "that freedom includes the right to sleep on the bridges."
Conservatives in the United States, for example, frequently rail against the “madness” of Islamic terrorists, and regard attempts to understand terrorism as appeasement or liberalism gone wild.
In his opinion, the underlying “old” patterns of political behavior (some a legacy of the pre-communist era) were temporarily pushed to the background by the wave of pro-Western civic liberalism that followed the collapse of communism in the region.
“People will always favor their own families and communities,” Goodhart argues, and “it is the task of a realistic liberalism to strive for a definition of community that is wide enough to include people from many different backgrounds, without being so wide as to become meaningless.”
What Trump’s Win Means for Eastern EuropeWARSAW – The rule of economic liberalism in the West is leading to the demise of political liberalism.
Although right-of-center politicians in Central European countries formally embrace traditional ideologies, for example, liberalism or conservatism, their electorates, unfamiliar with Western political philosophies, do not always understand the real meaning of those terms.
In 1903, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, produced by Imperial Russia’s secret police, “exposed” a diabolical Jewish plot to achieve world domination by promoting liberalism – and became a pretext for anti-Semitism in Europe.
After all, classical liberalism is based on the equal protection of inalienable rights such as life, liberty and property, whereas democracy is premised on majority rule, which may run roughshod over the rights of minorities, including capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the highly skilled.
Historically, liberalism preceded democracy in Europe.
What happened in Venezuela can be understood as a two-step process in which liberalism was destroyed first, to disempower the productive elites.
Indeed, Henry Kissinger once told me that he believes that Chinese traditional thought has a greater chance than any foreign ideology (say, Marxism or liberalism) of becoming the dominant intellectual force behind Chinese foreign policymaking.
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