Contents
List of Illustrative Material
Using this Book
Preface
Acknowledgements
1INTRODUCING POLITICAL IDEAS
Role of political ideas
Understanding political ideologies
Left- and right-wing ideas
Further reading
PART 1TRADITIONAL POLITICAL IDEAS
2LIBERALISM
Historical overview
Core ideas and principles
Human nature
Society
The state
The economy
Types of liberalism
Classical liberalism
Modern liberalism
Questions for discussion
Further reading
3CONSERVATISM
Historical overview
Core ideas and principles
Human nature
Society
The state
The economy
Types of conservatism
Authoritarian conservatism
Paternalistic conservatism
Libertarian conservatism
The New Right
National conservatism
Questions for discussion
Further reading
4SOCIALISM
Historical overview
Core ideas and principles
Human nature
Society
The state
The economy
Types of socialism
Communism
Social democracy
Questions for discussion
Further reading
PART 2OTHER POLITICAL IDEAS
5ANARCHISM
Historical overview
Core ideas and principles
Rejection of the state
Anarchy is order
Anti-clericalism
Economic freedom
Types of anarchism
Collectivist anarchism
Individualist anarchism
Questions for discussion
Further reading
6NATIONALISM
Historical overview
Core ideas and principles
The nation
Organic community
Self-determination
Culturalism
Types of nationalism
Liberal nationalism
Conservative nationalism
Expansionist nationalism
Anti-colonial and postcolonial nationalism
Questions for discussion
Further reading
7FEMINISM
Historical overview
Core ideas and principles
Sex and gender
Patriarchy
The personal is political
Equality and difference
Types of feminism
Liberal feminism
Socialist feminism
Radical feminism
Developments in modern feminism
Questions for discussion
Further reading
8ECOLOGISM
Historical overview
Core ideas and principles
Ecology
Holism
Sustainability
Environmental ethics
Post-materialism and ecological consciousness
Types of ecologism
Modernist ecology
Social ecology
Deep ecology
Questions for discussion
Further reading
9MULTICULTURALISM
Historical overview
Core ideas and principles
Politics of recognition
Culture and identity
Minority rights
Diversity
Types of multiculturalism
Liberal multiculturalism
Pluralist multiculturalism
Cosmopolitan multiculturalism
Critiques of multiculturalism
Questions for discussion
Further reading
Bibliography
Index