Concept information
Preferred term
liberalism
Definition
- Liberalism offers a prescription of how the state is to deal with citizens: Loosely speaking, the state is to address citizens as equal individuals. The rise of liberalism therefore requires the prior or more or less simultaneous development of a strong principle and practice of individualism. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Liberalism]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/liberalism
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