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Format:
Paperback
456 pp.
50 illustrations, 171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198727859

Copyright Year:
2017

Imprint: OUP UK

Political Ideologies

Paul Wetherly

Political Ideologies provides a wide-ranging introduction to classical and contemporary political ideologies. Adopting a global outlook, it introduces readers to both the increasingly global reach and the national variations of ideologies. Importantly, ideologies are presented as frameworks of interpretation and political commitment, encouraging readers to evaluate how ideologies work in practice, the problematic links between ideas and political action, and the impact of ideologies.

Readership : Undergraduate politics students taking a module in political ideologies.

Reviews

"The case studies are excellent and help the student to locate the theory in reality."
--Professor Jacqui Briggs, Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln
"The book succeeds in inviting the reader to engage in critical discussion and in linking ideology to politics."
--Niklas Olsen, Associate Professor, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen
"Strikes right balance between depth of analysis and accessibility."
--Professor Saul Newman, Goldsmiths University of London
"An excellent and rare balance between being approachable and confronting the reader with potentially thorny theoretical questions."
--Robin Barklis, University of Oregon

1. Introduction: Ideology, Politics, and Policy
2. Liberalism
3. Conservatism
4. Socialism and Communism
5. Anarchism
6. Nationalism
7. Fascism and the Radical Right
8. Reviewing the "Classical" Legacy
9. Feminism
10. Environmentalism
11. Multiculturalism
12. Religion, Politics, and Fundamentalism
13. Beyond Ideology?

Online Resource Centre
Instructor Resources:
- Suggested answers to review and discussion questions
- Discussion and debate ideas
PowerPoint Slides:
For each chapter:
- Overview and key points to help with planning
Student Resources:
- Further reading and resources
- Regular updates help students to keep up to date with ideologies as frameworks of understanding and political action in the real world

Paul Wetherly is Reader in Politcs at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Political Thinkers - Edited by David Boucher and Paul Kelly
Political Ideologies - H. B. McCullough
Readings in Political Ideologies since the Rise of Modern Science - H. B. McCullough and Wolfgang Depner
Political Ideologies - Edited by Matthew Festenstein and Michael Kenny

Special Features

Takes a global outlook, presenting ideologies which are essentially European in origin as having an increasingly global reach combined with national variants.
Chapter case studies - from a range of historical and national contexts - demonstrate ideologies in practice to help students explore the problematic links between ideas and political action.
Encourages critical thinking by identifying areas of convergence or overlap with related ideologies in each chapter, helping students to explore how ideologies are competing and contestable ways of interpreting the world.
Stop and Think features encourage critical reflection and analysis, prompting students to reflect on their own ideological beliefs and their reasons for holding them.