The Limits of Legitimacy: Political Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism

by Alan Wolfe

The author asks, "Why cannot liberal democracies solve their problems?"
The author's answer is a study of the competing political traditions first developed in the 19th century to mollify social tensions.

432 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1977

About the author

Alan Wolfe is professor of political science and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. The author and editor of more than twenty books, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harper's, and the Atlantic. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.