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Reign of the Managerial Elites |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Carmine Sarracino |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,019 Words, 13,343 Characters |
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AFTER LIBERALISM
Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
Paul Edward Gottfried
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999
185 pp., $26.95
Liberal is such a discredited term nowadays that even liberals shun it. After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State by Paul Gottfried is not one more superfluous kick at this prostrate term. No attack is even needed because the days of liberalism, to Gottfried, are over. His concern is with what has grown up not only in American politics but in worldwide politics since the nineteenth-century heyday of liberalism. And that is the managerial state: the politics of handouts and entitlements that compels politicians of all stripes either to bow deferentially at its feet or simply bow out of the political arena.
Gottfried points o...
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... but I do not see why as we go with the stream we need sing Hallelujah to the river god." Gottfried is surely not singing hallelujah. He is instead alerting and warning in a most clear and compelling voice. But is anyone listening? How many of us are too wooed and cushioned by the managerial state to notice that the price we have paid--no, gladly handed over--is nothing less than our freedom.
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