138 The Nature of Political Theory- This is close to Michael Sandel’s use of the term ‘procedural republic’ for this liberalism,
see Michael Sandel, ‘The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self’ in T. B. Strong
(ed.) (1992). - For Taylor theproceduralview is best encapsulated in Ronald Dworkin’s paper on
‘Liberalism’ in Hampshire (ed.) 1980, 113–43; see Taylor in Gutman (ed.) (1994: 56). - The term ‘new liberal’ or ‘social liberal’ is immensely complex and contested. I have not
attempted to examine the term, but have largely taken it for granted in this chapter that we
can speak of its ideology and social theory. This is by no means an uncontested position.
My own attempt to assess the new liberalism can be found in Andrew Vincent (1990, 1995:
ch. 5), Vincent and Plant (1984: ch. 5), and most recently Andrew Vincent in Simhony
and Weinstein (eds.) 2001. See also Michael Freeden (1978) and Simhony and Weinstein
(eds.) (2001).