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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Boxes
Preface to the sixth edition
Acknowledgements
1. Political Ideologies and Why They Matter
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The role of ideas
Views of ideology
Marxist views
Non-Marxist views
Contours of ideology
Fusing understanding and commitment
Fusing thought and action
Ideology, truth and power
Left and right
New ideologies for old?
Using this book
Questions for discussion
Further reading
2. Liberalism
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Origins and development
Core themes: the primacy of the individual
Individualism
Freedom
Reason
Justice
Toleration
Liberalism, government and democracy
The liberal state
Constitutionalism
Liberal democracy
Classical liberalism
Natural rights
Utilitarianism
Economic liberalism
Social Darwinism
Modern liberalism
Individuality
Positive freedom
Social liberalism
Economic management
Liberalism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
3. Conservatism
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Origins and development
Core themes: the desire to conserve
Tradition
Human imperfection
Organic society
Hierarchy and authority
Property
Authoritarian conservatism
Paternalistic conservatism
One Nation conservatism
Libertarian conservatism
Christian democracy
Social market economy
Federalism
New Right
Neoliberalism
Neoconservatism
Conservatism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
4. Socialism
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Origins and development
Core themes: no man is an island
Community
Cooperation
Equality
Class politics
Common ownership
Roads to socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Evolutionary socialism
The inevitability of gradualism?
Communism
Classical Marxism
Orthodox communism
Neo-Marxism
The death of Marxism?
Social democracy
Ethical socialism
Revisionist socialism
The crisis of social democracy
Neo-revisionism and the ‘third way’
Socialism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
5. Anarchism
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Origins and development
Core themes: against statist politics
Anti-statism
Natural order
Anti-clericalism
Economic freedom
Collectivist anarchism
Mutualism
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-communism
Individualist anarchism
Egoism
Libertarianism
Anarcho-capitalism
Roads to anarchy
Revolutionary violence
Direct action
Anarcho-pacifism
Anarchism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
6. Nationalism
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Origins and development
Core themes: for the love of country
The nation
Organic community
Self-determination
Culturalism
Types of nationalism
Liberal nationalism
Conservative nationalism
Expansionist nationalism
Anti-colonial and postcolonial nationalism
Nationalism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
7. Fascism
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Origins and development
Core themes: strength through unity
Anti-rationalism
Struggle
Leadership and elitism
Socialism
Ultranationalism
Fascism and the state
The totalitarian ideal
Corporatism
Modernization
Fascism and racism
The politics of race
Nazi race theories
Peasant ideology
Fascism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
8. Feminism
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Origins and development
Core themes: the politics of the personal
Redefining ‘the political’
Patriarchy
Sex and gender
Equality and difference
Types of feminism
Liberal feminism
Socialist feminism
Radical feminism
Developments in modern feminism
Feminism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
9. Green Ideology
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Origins and development
Core themes: return to nature
Ecology
Holism
Sustainability
Environmental ethics
From having to being
Types of green ideology
Modernist ecology
Social ecology
Deep ecology
Green ideology in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
10. Multiculturalism
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Origins and development
Core themes: diversity within unity
Politics of recognition
Culture and identity
Minority rights
Diversity
Types of multiculturalism
Liberal multiculturalism
Pluralist multiculturalism
Cosmopolitan multiculturalism
Critiques of multiculturalism
Multiculturalism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
11. Islamism
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Origins and development
Core themes: religion as ideology
Fundamentalism and modernity
Islamism and Islam
Revolt against the West
The Islamic state
Jihadism
Types of Islamism
Sunni Islamism
Shia Islamism
‘Moderate’ or ‘conservative’ Islamism
Islamism in a global age
Questions for discussion
Further reading
12. Ideology Without End?
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Endism
End of ideology?
End of history?
Beyond left and right?
Triumph of reason?
The resilience of ideology
Questions for discussion
Further reading
Bibliography
Index
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