POLS 112 Study Guide - Final Guide: For Marx, Liberal Democracy, Perpetual Peace
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Liberalism focuses on the individual that is rational (makes choices of reason), self-interested (these choices are determined in your interest), competitive (achievement driven), and acquisitive (private property is essential) Classical liberalism minimalist state, the government should do the bare minimum: thomas hobbes leviathan, john locke the state of nature , two treatises of government . You can exercise your liberty by making your own choices: john stuart mill freedom is a good thing because it promotes the permanent interests of a man as a progressive being . Advocate for public education, concern being that a standard curriculum/conformity cannot lead to autonomy. Social (welfare) liberalism creating equal opportunity: ideas such as progressive taxation. Neo-liberalism levelling the field for a free marketplace. Liberal internationalism a project to transform international relations so that they conform to models of peace, freedom, and prosperity allegedly enjoyed within constitutional liberal democracies. Two streams : republican liberalism directed at the relationship between states and their citizens.
