Political Ideologies: An Introduction

by Richard Jay (Author), Rick Wilford (Author), Vincent Geoghegan (Author), Robert Eccleshall (Author)

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  Paperback
  1984

  $3.25

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  This is a completely revised and updated version of a concise, introductory textbook, first published in 1984. The new edition covers all the major ideologies, adding feminism and ecologism to the original line-up. An introductory chapter charts the recent resurgence of the ideological controversy and assesses the significance of the collapse of Soviet bloc communism and of end of ideology theses. Each subsequent chapter explores the origins and historical background of each ideology, and looks at it in its British and international contexts. Political Ideologies makes the character of each ideology and the interrelationships clear, avoiding complexity and jargon. The authors, all from the same university department, have worked closely together to produce a coherent and consistently well-written text. Eccleshall's other works include English Conservatism Since the Restoration (Unwin Hyman 1990); and with Geoghegan, and D.G. Boyce: Political Thought in Ireland (Routledge 1993).