On Liberalism_ by Leonard Hobhouse. A book Review

by, Bjorni TANE, Klerisa AZUNI, Enkeleda STAFA

Abstract

Leonard Hobhouse was a British sociologist, journalist and philosopher who occupies a prominent place in the history of the Liberal Democrats and for the conception of the model of the welfare state. He was the founder of theoretical sociology but also educated with the conservative ideas of his father which led him to a unique perspective where conservative ideologies were mixed with liberal ones. In the book Liberalism he tries to bring us his view on the differences between the welfare state and the non-intervening state. But what are these elements that send us to the creation of this ideology