Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach

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Clarendon Press, 1996 M10 24 - 592 páginas
Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. But no one has yet satisfactorily explained the nature of ideologies themselves. Michael Freeden here offers a ground-breaking approach to the subject.Drawing on the political experience of Britain, France, Germany, and the USA over the past two centuries, the author provides an in-depth examination of the key political ideologies: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, feminism, and green political thought. He outlines a powerful and sophisticated new theory of ideologies, arguing that by paying special attention to the complexity, conceptual inter-relationship, and historical and contemporary context of ideologies we can both betterunderstand them and reinvigorate the study of political theory.
 

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Introduction
1
THEORIZING ABOUT IDEOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGY
11
LIBERALISM THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGY
137
THE ADAPTABILITY OF CONSERVATISM
315
SOCIALISM THE CONTAINMENT OF TRANSCENDENCE
415
TRANSFORMATION AND DILUTION THE ASSAULT ON IDEOLOGICAL CONVENTION
483
Epilogue
551
Bibliography
555
Name Index
575
Subject Index
583
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Michael Freeden is a Professor of Politics at Oxford University, and Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford.

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