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1. Introduction

2. The British Background
A Preview
The Focus on the Individual
Constitutional Government and Civil Rights
Economic Freedom
Laissez Faire?
Social Darwinism
New Liberalism
A National Consensus?
Reprise
Reason, Tolerance, and Progress

3. Progressive Liberalism: The New Deal
The Great Depression
Laissez Faire?
Roosevelt's Stance
New Deal Legislation
Roosevelt's Ideology

4. Progressive Liberalism: The Great Society and Welfare
The End of Ideology
Expanded New Deal Programs
Food Stamps
Medicare and Medicaid
Economic Opportunity
Redistributive?
The Market
Johnson's Ideology

Progressive Liberalism: Equal Treatment
Jim Crow
Racial Discrimination and the Problem of Redress
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Equal Treatment for Nonracial Groups
Multiculturalism
The Environment

6. Progressive Liberalism: Its Nature
Liberty
Equality
Tolerance and Neutrality
The Role of Reason
The Usefulness of Government
Welfare
Taxes
Underlying Postulates
Epilogue

7. Libertarianism
Liberty and the Market
Why Liberty and the Market?
Collectivism? Coercion?
Social Justice? Social Responsibility? Uphold Virtue? Equality?
Criticisms of Government
Limited or Minimal Government
Welfare and the Welfare State
Private Coercion
Robert Nozick
Anarchocapitalism
Social Rigidities
Externalities
Reprise

8. Public Choice
Assumptions
The Argument
Qualifications
The Prescription
Critique

9. Conservative Conservatism
Distrust of Rationalism
Preference for the Known
Change
Ideology, Tradition, and God's Will
"Fusionism"

10. Economic Conservatism
Hostility to Government
Taxes
The Seven Fat Years
Hostility ot Regulatory Activities
Equality to Opportunity
Welfare
Crime
Reprise

11. Social Conservatism
The Source of Moral Rules
The Program

12. Progressive Conservatism
The Need for Government Action
Empowerment
Enterprise Zones
Housing
Welfare Reform
Education
Health Care
Nonpoverty Concerns
Big Government?

13. Neoconservatism
Hostility to Communism and Support for Western Values
Hostility to Egalitarianism
The Welfare State
Defending America
Virtue
Neos and Other Conservatives

14. Foreign Policies
The Terminological Muddle
Anticommunism and the Soviet Threat
Diplomacy, International Law, and International Organization
Human Rights and Democracy
Isolationism
America First
Conservative Conservatism
A New World Order?

15. Neoliberalisms
Is Liberalism Discreditable?
A Neoliberal Manifesto
The End of Equality
Community
A New Democrat?

16. Concluding Observations
A Comparison of Conceptualizations
Sources of Agreement/Disagreement

References
Index