Many of
the strands of social liberalism that have been identified in this chapter and throughout this book are ones which strike a chord with the British public today.
The strand of social liberalism in the party is influenced by William Beveridge, who is credited with drafting further advancements of the welfare state, and economist John Maynard Keynes.
Not exact matches
Michael Novak identifies certain affinities between Catholic
social teaching and the «original American» tradition
of political thought, and he argues that Catholic intellectual resources should be put in the service
of the classically American
strand of liberalism.
This
strand of thought is not alien to the party, and for much
of the history
of the Liberal Party, and then the Liberal Democrats, it has been able to coexist happily with centre - left
social liberalism.
For the record, while the
Social Liberal Forum does indeed believe that social liberalism is the mainstream ideology of the Liberal Democrats, we do not believe it is incompatible with other strands of liber
Social Liberal Forum does indeed believe that
social liberalism is the mainstream ideology of the Liberal Democrats, we do not believe it is incompatible with other strands of liber
social liberalism is the mainstream ideology
of the Liberal Democrats, we do not believe it is incompatible with other
strands of liberalism.
Although we celebrate Hardie as the founder
of the Labour Party, he also operated in the space between competing variants
of liberalism: its radical, individualistic
strands and a more collectivist
social liberalism.