Andrew Heywood - Political Ideologies

Every summer I teach a course on politics and popular culture and assign Andrew Heywoods Political Ideologies. The book provides a clear introduction to the isms that shape how most of us think about politics, including, in the new edition, populism. The book hits the sweet spot of being accessible to newcomers and illuminating for more advanced students.

Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University, USA

This brand new edition of Andrew Heywoods Political Ideologies reflects the challenges and developments of our times: it includes a chapter on populism, a feminism chapter comprising intersectionality, trans theory and queer theory, an in-depth analysis of postcolonialism, case studies on contemporary issues and a discussion about the future prospects of each ideology. An indispensable tool for learning and teaching.

Andrea Schapper, University of Stirling, UK

A rare book which helps teachers not only inform but also inspire students to discover their place among competing ideologies. Heywoods orderly presentation provides readers with excellent access to a wide range of ideological identities.

John Uhr, Australian National University, Australia

Political Ideologies represents an excellent resource that continues to be of interest to both staff and students. Heywood sets out and develops a clear understanding of the ideologies that continue to shape contemporary politics and society.

Michael Kyriacou, University of East Anglia, UK

Political Ideologies reflects considerable scholarship but communicates this in a clear and accessible way. The format, including tables and boxes that compare ideologies, is exceptionally reader-friendly. The tracking of the evolution of ideologies is particularly good, and helps students (and others!) make sense of the bewildering forest of labels that litter the political landscape today. This is a book that students will actually read!

Jennifer Leigh Bailey, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Andrew Heywoods book remains one of the best introductions to the study of political ideologies. Its main strength lies in the authors ability to explain complex ideas in an engaging and accessible way, while the Political Ideologies in Action features encourage the reader to reflect on the relationship between political ideas and contemporary issues.

Judi Atkins, Aston University, UK

This book is essential reading as a core text in political ideologies. It explores in detail the origins, key concepts, variants and tensions within ideologies, and this new edition provides even more extensive consideration of the most recent developments in ideology such as populism and trans and queer theory. A key attractive feature is the way the book relates ideology to current themes such as decolonising the curriculum, nationalism and the pandemic, anarchism and cyberspace. In short, this is a well-written, comprehensive, up-to-date and above all stimulating text.

Paul Flenley, University of Portsmouth, UK

I teach an introductory course with many general education students. Consequently, I was looking for a text that was above all highly accessible and engaging without sacrificing content. Political Ideologies meets both goals by succinctly outlining foundational material and building meaningful points of comparison across the traditions with ample opportunity to address finer nuances and draw connections to recent events.

Peter Doerschler, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA

BRIEF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

KEY FIGURES

KEY CONCEPTS

PERSPECTIVES ON...

TENSIONS WITHIN...

POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES IN ACTION

This book contains a number of pedagogical features to help you understand each ideology discussed, the key thinkers and concepts associated with them, the differences between them and the tensions within them.

At the start of each chapter...

Chapter previews highlight the broad nature of the ideology and give a taste of the discussion to follow in the chapter.

Within each chapter

Definitions of key terms, highlighted in the text, appear on the page where they are used, instead of in a separate glossary.

Environmentalism: A concern about the natural environment and particularly about reducing environmental degradation: a policy orientation rather than an ideological stance.

Humanism: A philosophy that gives moral priority to the achievement of human needs and ends.

Key figure boxes offer biographical details about the major thinkers and their influence on each ideological tradition, as well as highlighting their key writings.

KEY CONCEPT

PRAGMATISM

Pragmatism, broadly defined, refers to behaviour that is shaped in accordance with practical circumstances and goals, rather than principles or ideological objectives. As a philosophical tradition, associated with classical pragmatists such as William disputes that seeks to clarify the mean and hypotheses by identifying consequences. The benefits of pragm are that it allows policies and politic be judged on their merits (on the works), and that it prevents ideology divorced from reality and turning in thinking. Critics, however, equate p

Key concept boxes provide extended explanations of important ideas that underpin the ideologies under discussion.

Perspectives on... features consider rival perspectives on important political themes.

PERSPECTIVES ON...IDEOLOGY

LIBERALS, sanctioned belief system that claims a monopoly of truth, often through a spurious claim to be scientific. Ideology is therefore inherently repressive, even totalitarian; its prime examples are communism and fascism.

CONSERVATIVES have traditionally regarded ideology as a manifestation of the arrogance of rationalism. Ideologies are elaborate systems of thought that are dangerous or unreliable because, being abstracted from reality, they establish principles and goals that lead to repression, or are simply unachievable. In this light, socialism and liberalism are clearly ideological.

SOCIALISTS, following Marx, have seen ideology as a body of ideas that conceal the contradictions of class society, thereby promoting false consciousness and political passivity among subordinate classes. Liberalism is the classic ruling-class ideology. Later Marxists adopted

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