Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Liberalism and radicalism in Bulgaria


Related Topics

  
  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Liberalism
According to the tenets of this form of liberalism, as explained by writers such as John Dewey and Mortimer Adler, since individuals are the basis of society, all individuals should have access to basic necessities of fulfillment, such as education, economic opportunity, and protection from harmful macro-events beyond their control.
Liberals are in favour of a pluralist system in which differing political and social views, even extreme or fringe views, compete for political power on a democratic basis and have the opportunity to achieve power through periodically held elections.
Liberal conservatism is a hybrid of economic liberalism and conservative social philosophy.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Liberalism   (9122 words)

  
 liberalism - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about liberalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Liberalism developed during the 17th to 19th centuries as the distinctive theory of the industrial and commercial classes in their struggle against the power of the monarchy, the church, and the feudal landowners.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries its ideas were modified by the acceptance of universal suffrage (voting rights for all citizens) and a certain amount of state intervention in economic affairs, in order to ensure a minimum standard of living and to remove extremes of poverty and wealth.
Liberalism is not a sin, it is a necessary part of a great whole, which whole would collapse and fall to pieces without it.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /liberalism   (350 words)

  
 Liberalism
Most liberals claim that a government is necessary to protect rights, yet the meaning of "government" can range from simply a rights protection organization to a Weberian state.
However, movements generally labelled as truly "liberal" date from the Enlightenment, particularly the Whig party in Britain, the philosophes in France, and the movement towards self-government in colonial America.
The relationship between liberalism and democracy may be summed up by Winston Churchill's famous remark, "...democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms..." In short, there is nothing about democracy per se that guarantees freedom rather than a tyranny of the masses.
www.hotspotsz.com /wiki.php?title=Liberalism   (5128 words)

  
 Liberalism Biography,info
They argue that liberal societies are characterised by long-term poverty, and by ethnic and class differentials in health, by (infant) mortality and lower life expectancy.
A response to these claims is that liberal states tend to be wealthier than less free states, that the poor in liberal states are better off than the average citizen in non-liberal states, and that inequality is a necessary spur to the hard work that produces prosperity.
Liberalism also emphasizes equality of opportunity, and not equality of outcome, citing the desire for a meritocracy.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Liberal   (9687 words)

  
 21ma.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Another example of this form of liberal revolution is from Ecuador where Eloy Alfaro in 1895 lead a "radical liberal" revolution that secularized the state, opened marriage laws, engaged in the development of infrastructure and the economy.
These liberals developed the theory of modern liberalism (also "new liberalism," not to be confused with present-day neoliberalism).
Other liberals, including Friedrich August von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ludwig von Mises, argued that the great depression was not a result of "laissez-faire" capitalism but a result of too much government intervention and regulation upon the market.
www.21ma.com /mod3.php?title=Liberalism   (6868 words)

  
 CER | Book Review: The Meaning of Liberalism East and West
Where Western liberals, Suda claims, have no faith whatsoever—only suspicion of any and all kinds of socialist theories and programs—liberals in the East tend to see some value in the theories and possibilities of certain programs, believing that it was the Soviet-style totalitarian form of socialism that was wrong.
In fact, political liberalism is never entirely reducible to the rational behavior of free individuals, moved only by their relentless pursuit of the maximization of utility.
The claims made in the introduction of liberalism victorious are not upheld by the present-day political situation (see Kai-Olaf Lang's article "Falling Down" on the decline of Central European liberalism in CER, August 2000); the reader wonders why.
www.ce-review.org /01/2/books2_mrozek.html   (1345 words)

  
 Radical Democratic Party (Bulgaria) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Radical Democratic Party (Bulgarian: Radikaldemokratičeska Partija) is a liberal party in Bulgaria.
Radical Democratic Party official site (the English page)
 This article related to a European Liberal party is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radical_Democratic_Party_(Bulgaria)   (158 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.