"Social liberals" redirects here. For the Austrian political party, see The Social Liberals.
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Social liberalism[a] (German: Sozialliberalismus, Spanish: socioliberalismo, Dutch: Sociaalliberalisme) 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 supports unregulated laissez-faire capitalism with very few government services.
Economically, it is based on the social market economy, and views the common good as harmonious with the individual's freedom.[9] Social liberals overlap with social democrats in accepting economic interventionism more than other liberals;[10] its importance is considered auxiliary compared to social democrats.[11] Ideologies that emphasize its economic policy include welfare liberalism,[12] New Deal liberalism in the United States,[13] and Keynesian liberalism.[14] Cultural liberalism is an ideology that highlights its cultural aspects. The world has widely adopted social liberal policies.[15]
Social liberal ideas and parties tend to be considered centre to centre-left, although there are deviations from these positions to both the political left or right.[b][10][16][17] Addressing economic and social issues, such as poverty, welfare, infrastructure, health care and education using government intervention, while emphasising individual rights and autonomy, are expectations under a social liberal government.[18][19][20] In modern political discourse, social liberalism is associated with progressivism,[21][22][23] a left-liberalism contrasted to the right-leaning neoliberalism,[24] and combines support for a mixed economy with cultural liberalism.[25]
Social liberalism may also refer to American progressive stances on sociocultural issues,[26] such as reproductive rights and same-sex marriage, in contrast with American social conservatism. Cultural liberalism is often referred to as social liberalism because it expresses the social dimension of liberalism; however, it is not the same as the broader political ideology known as social liberalism. In American politics, a social liberal may hold either conservative (economic liberal) or liberal (economic progressive) views on fiscal policy.[27]
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^Hoensbroech, Paul Kajus Graf (1912). Der Linksliberalismus. Leipzig.
^Felix Rachfahl (1912). Eugen Richter und der Linksliberalismus im Neuen Reiche. Berlin.
^Ulrich Zeller (1912). Die Linksliberalen. Munich.
^José Luis Comellas Del antiguo al nuevo régimen: hasta la muerte de Fernando VII[permanent dead link], pp. 421. (Spanish)
^De Ruggiero, Guido (1959). The History of European Liberalism. pp. 155–157.
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^Margalit, Avishai (2013). "Liberal or Social Democrat?". Dissent. No. Spring 2013. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
^"Main Ideas of General-welfare Liberalism". www1.udel.edu. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
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^Hombach, Bodo (2000). The politics of the new centre. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780745624600. Archived from the original on 3 August 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
^Matland, Richard E.; Montgomery, Kathleen A. (2003). Women's access to political power in post-communist Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924685-4.
^Rohr, Donald G. (September 1964). "The Origins of Social Liberalism in Germany". The Journal of Economic History. 24 (3). Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
^Gaus, Gerald & Courtland, Shane D. (Spring 2011). "The 'New Liberalism'". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
^Derbyshire, John (12 July 2010). "The origins of social liberalism". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
^Klaus P. Fischer, ed. (2007). America in White, Black, and Gray: A History of the Stormy 1960s. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 39.
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^Muzammil Quraishi, ed. (2020). Towards a Malaysian Criminology: Conflict, Censure and Compromise. Springer Nature. p. 83. ISBN 9781137491015. The urgent need for a meaningful theoretical perspective and research agenda is driven by an observation that both left liberalism (progressivism) and right liberalism (neoliberalism) have neutralised traditional conservative socialist discourses.
^Joseph M. Hoeffel, ed. (2014). Fighting for the Progressive Center in the Age of Trump. ABC-CLIO. p. 56. Modern American progressive thought combines social liberalism, including its government spending programs and mix of private enterprise and government regulation, with liberal cultural causes including voting rights for minorities, ...[ISBN missing]
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