Anti-Pluralist Liberalism: The German Neoliberals
Currently, there is a challenging discussion among political scientists regarding the merits and limitations of pluralism in American government and politics and the role of liberal ideas and attitudes that have been commonly associated with it.1 It is seldom noticed that many of the critical views raised in the literature have been anticipated by the arguments of the German neoliberals; aside from one very informative and perspicacious bibliographical article on the entire movement,2 German neoliberalism has received only meager attention in this country, and that almost exclusively from economists.3 Yet the German neoliberal movement has im-