Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 The British background: a preview; the focus on the individual; constitutional government and civil rights; economic freedom, laissez faire?; social Darwinism; new liberalism; a national consensus?; reprise; reason, tolerance, and progress. Part 3 Progressive liberalism - the New Deal: the Great Depression; laissez faire?; Roosevelt's stance; New Deal legislation; Roosevelt's ideology . Part 4 progressive liberalism - the great society and welfare: the end of ideology; expanded New Deal programs; food stamps; Medicare and Medicaid; economic opportunity; redistributive?; the market; Johnson's ideology. Part 5 Progressive liberalism - equal treatment: Jim Crow; racial discrimination and the problem of redress; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; equal treatment for nonracial groups; multiculturalism; the environment. Part 6 Progressive liberalism - its nature: liberty; equality; tolerance and neutrality; the role of reason; the usefulness of government; welfare; taxes; underlying postulates; epilogue. Part 7 Libertarianism: liberty and the market; why liberty and the market?; collectivism? coercion?; social justice?, social responsibility?, uphold virtue?, equality?; criticisms of government; limited or minimal government; welfare and the Welfare State; private coercion; Robert Nozick; anarchocapitalism; social rigidities; externalities; reprise. Part 8 Public choice: assumptions; the argument; qualifications; the prescription; critique. Part 9 Conservative conservatism: distrust of rationalism; preference for the known; change; ideology, tradition, and God's will; "fusionism,". Part 10 Economic conservatism: hostility to government; taxes; the seven fat years; hostility to regulatory activities; equality of opportunity; welfare; crime; reprise. Part 11 Social conservatism - the source of moral rules; the program. Part 12 Progressive conservatism: the need for governmental action; empowerment; enterprise zones; housing; welfare reform; education; health care; nonpoverty concerns; big government? Part 13 Neoconservatism: hostility to communism and support for western values; hostility to egalitarianism; the Welfare State; defending America; virtue; neos and other conservatives. Part 14 Foreign policies: the terminological muddle; anticommunism and the Soviet threat; diplomacy, international law, and international organization; human rights and democracy; isolationism; America first; conservative conservatism; a new world order? Part 15 neoliberalisms: is liberalism discreditable?; a neoliberal manifesto; the end of equality; community; a new democrat? Part 16 Concluding observations: a comparison of conceptualizations; sources of agreement/disagreement.
