AuthorHeywood, Andrew, author
TitlePolitical ideologies : an introduction / Andrew Heywood
ImprintLondon : Palgrave, 2017
Edition Sixth edition
Descript xx, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

SUMMARY

The 6th edition of Andrew Heywood's best-selling undergraduate textbook provides a clear and accessible introduction to the political creeds and doctrines that have dominated and shaped politics around the world


CONTENT

Political Ideologies and Why They Matter -- 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? -- Liberalism -- 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 -- Conservatism -- 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 -- Socialism -- 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 -- Anarchism -- 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 -- Nationalism -- 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 -- Fascism -- 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. Feminism -- 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 -- Green Ideology -- 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 -- Multiculturalism -- 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 -- Islamism -- 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 -- Contents note continued: Islamism in a global age -- Ideology without End? -- Endism -- End of ideology? -- End of history? -- Beyond left and right? -- Triumph of reason? -- The resilience of ideology.


SUBJECT

  1. Ideology
  2. Right and left (Political science)
  3. Political science

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Central Library (5th Floor)320.5 H622P 2017 CHECK SHELVES