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Klappentext Ajume H. Wingo argues that non-rational factors--rhetoric, symbols, and traditions--provide the actual source of motivation in the development and sustainability of the liberal democratic state. Drawing from historical and philosophical sources, Wingo demonstrates that these "veils" can play an essential role in a thriving, stable liberal democratic state.In this exciting account of the development and sustainability of the liberal democratic state, Ajume H. Wingo argues that it is non-rational factors that more often than not provide the real source of motivation. Wingo demonstrates that these 'veils' can play an essential role in a thriving liberal democratic state. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction to veil politics; 2. History, culture and persons; 3. Liberalism and veil politics; 4. The art of liberal politics; 5. Civic education in a liberal state.