Desmond King is a Professor of Politics and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

King provides a much needed corrective to unequivocal celebrations of liberal democracy in his masterly account of the development of twentieth-century social policies which clearly violate the liberal principles of equal treatment of individuals and personal freedom

• PART 1. POLITICS, POLICY MAKING AND IDEAS. ; 1. Liberalism and Illiberal Social Policy ; 2. Liberal Democracy and Policy-Making: Knowledge and the Formation of Social Policy ; PART 2. LIBERAL UNREASON ; 3. Cutting off the Worse: Voluntary Sterilisation in Britain in the 1930s ; 4. The Gravest Menace?: Eugenics and American Immigration Policy ; PART 3. LIBERAL AMELIORATION AND COLLECTIVISM ; 5. Reconditioning the Unemployed: the Labour Camps in Britain ; 6. This Kind of Work Must Go On: The US Civilian Conservation Corps ; PART 4. THE LIBERAL COERCIVE CONTRACT ; 7. Aroused Like One From Sleep: From New Poor Law to Workfare in Britain ; 8. A Second Chance, Not a Way of Life: Welfare as Workfare in the US ; PART 5. COONCLUSION ; 9. The Future of Social Citizenship

Desmond King is a Professor of Politics and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

King provides a much needed corrective to unequivocal celebrations of liberal democracy in his masterly account of the development of twentieth-century social policies which clearly violate the liberal principles of equal treatment of individuals and personal freedom

• PART 1. POLITICS, POLICY MAKING AND IDEAS. ; 1. Liberalism and Illiberal Social Policy ; 2. Liberal Democracy and Policy-Making: Knowledge and the Formation of Social Policy ; PART 2. LIBERAL UNREASON ; 3. Cutting off the Worse: Voluntary Sterilisation in Britain in the 1930s ; 4. The Gravest Menace?: Eugenics and American Immigration Policy ; PART 3. LIBERAL AMELIORATION AND COLLECTIVISM ; 5. Reconditioning the Unemployed: the Labour Camps in Britain ; 6. This Kind of Work Must Go On: The US Civilian Conservation Corps ; PART 4. THE LIBERAL COERCIVE CONTRACT ; 7. Aroused Like One From Sleep: From New Poor Law to Workfare in Britain ; 8. A Second Chance, Not a Way of Life: Welfare as Workfare in the US ; PART 5. COONCLUSION ; 9. The Future of Social Citizenship