George Crowder , "Two Concepts of Liberal Pluralism," Political Theory35, no. 2 (2007).
2.
Although Crowder does not discuss the political implications of his position in great detail, he clearly favors a substantial role for the State in ensuring the development of individual autonomy within nonliberal groups. For example, he suggests that the "likeliest guarantor" of the conditions of autonomous judgment is the State, and that "[m]ere noninterference [by the State] with the processes by which personal autonomy emerges amounts, in effect, to shutting many people out of the possibility of autonomy . . . " (139).
3.
See William Galston , Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 104.
4.
Ibid., 105.
5.
See Chandran Kukathas , The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003), 113.
6.
Galston, Liberal Pluralism, 3.
7.
Ibid., 49.
8.
"Internally diverse cultures," which Crowder believes are required by autonomy-based liberalism, "will tend to be . . . liberal cultures based on personal autonomy" (134).
