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  2. Social democracy - Wikipedia

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    Bernstein described socialism and social democracy in particular as organized liberalism; [69] in this sense, liberalism is the predecessor and precursor of socialism, [70] whose restricted view of freedom is to be socialized, while democracy must entail social democracy. [71]

  3. Social liberalism - Wikipedia

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    Social liberalism [a] is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political rights, as opposed to classical liberalism which favors limited government and an overall more laissez-faire style of governance. While both are committed to personal ...

  4. Centre-left politics - Wikipedia

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    With the end of fascism, countries in Western Europe adopted social democracy and liberal democracy. [86] Social democracy was widely adopted and implemented in much of Europe, both by centre-left and by traditionally centre-right parties. [9] Social liberalism was developed in the United Kingdom by liberal politicians such as John Maynard ...

  5. Political spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Liberalism can mean different things in different contexts, being sometimes on the left (social liberalism) and other times on the right (conservative liberalism or classical liberalism). Those with an intermediate outlook are sometimes classified as centrists .

  6. Political ideologies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Modern liberalism in the United States originates from the reforms advocated by the progressive movement of the early 20th century. [29] Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal in response to the Great Depression, and the New Deal programs defined social liberalism in the United States, establishing it as a major ideology.

  7. Liberalism - Wikipedia

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    Importantly, social democracy does not oppose the state's existence. Several commentators have noted strong similarities between social liberalism and social democracy, with one political scientist [who?] calling American liberalism "bootleg social democracy" due to the absence of a significant social democratic tradition in the United States ...

  8. Types of democracy - Wikipedia

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    A liberal democracy is a representative democracy with rule of law, protection for individual liberties and rights, and limitations on the power of the elected representatives. An illiberal democracy is a representative democracy with weak or no limits on the power of the elected representatives to rule as they please.

  9. Modern liberalism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States the general term liberalism almost always refers to modern liberalism. There are some parties in Europe which nominally appeal to social liberalism, with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats, the Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement and the Italian Republican Party.