Though the MR's original ideology emphasised classical liberalism and free market economics, it has of late joined the general trend of Belgian liberals to accept elements of
social liberalism under the influence of Dirk Verhofstadt, whose brother Guy Verhofstadt led the MR's Flemish counterpart, the Open VLD.
Not exact matches
Rather, the man who had first worked at the intersection of ideas and power during his World War II service at the British Embassy in Washington was a Russo - English exponent of classic American New Deal
liberalism: a liberal who believed that government had an obligation to secure the economic,
social, and educational conditions
under which people could truly exercise their liberty.
But the great tradition was kept alive in the
social liberalism of the «Right Reverend New Dealer,» Msgr. John A. Ryan, and was revived among the bishops in the late 1940s and 1950s
under the episcopal leadership of men like Detroit's Edward Mooney, Chicago's Albert Meyer, and St. Louis» Joseph Ritter.
Under our new leadership we will build on the proud history of
social liberalism within our Party and work towards the rejection of tribalism, class based politics and anti-state libertarianism.
In the decades that followed, the use of the term «neoliberal» tended to refer to theories which diverged from the more laissez - faire doctrine of classical
liberalism and which promoted instead a market economy
under the guidance and rules of a strong state, a model which came to be known as the
social market economy.
In that same 22 Days in May postscript, Laws also notes that the Lib Dems» retreat towards economic
liberalism, combined with a move towards
social liberalism for the Tories
under David Cameron, gave the parties some common ground on which to start coalition negotiations.