LIBERALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY

被引:5
作者
ASHCRAFT, R
机构
[1] Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
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D O I
10.1080/08913819208443277
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
From the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, the language of natural law and natural rights structured the commitment of liberalism to the development of both a market society and democratic political institutions. The existence of widespread poverty was seen, at various times, as a problem to be resolved either by an expanding commercial/capitalistic society or through democratic political reform. As Thomas Horne shows in Property Rights and Poverty, liberalism as a political theory has, from its origins, been deeply committed to (at least a minimalist) social welfare policy. Nevertheless, not only have the dimensions of the problem of poverty increased with the growth of democratic capitalist society, but also, viewed from an historical perspective, it is the problem of poverty that exposes the fundamental tensions at the heart of liberal political theory.
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页码:493 / 516
页数:24
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