Provides an assessment of the developments in Anglo-American liberal theorizing about limited government. This book follows a comparative study of canonical liberal philosophers Hayek and Rawls, and reveals a direction for conceptualizing limited government in the twenty-first century. It draws on scholarship in the field of democratic theory.
"One of Juliet Williams's many achievements in her valuable exploration of liberal concern with limited government is her bold methodological challenge to the limits of liberal theorizing. In a work ranging from Rawls to reality television, she demonstrates how rigorous political theory can and must be responsive to its popular contexts."
- Jodi Dean, author of Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy
JULIET A. WILLIAMS is Assistant Professor in the Law and Society and Women's Studies Programmes at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.