Ideologies in Action
Ideologies in Action: Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas explores how political ideas move across geographical, social and chronological boundaries.
Focusing on North American and European case studies ranging from populist tax revolts through parenting advice manuals to online learning environments, the contributors propose new methods for understanding how political entrepreneurs, intellectuals and ordinary citizens deploy and redefine ideologies. All of these groups are consumers of ideology, drawing on pre-existing, transnational ideological concepts and narratives in order to make sense of the world. They are also all producers of ideology, adapting and reconfiguring ideological material to support their own political aims, desires and policy objectives. In doing so, they combine common conceptual elements - interpretations of freedom, order, national identity, democracy, community or equality - with sentiments and imaginations deeply embedded in cultural and social practice. To render these ideological practices intelligible, the contributors to this volume blend conceptual morphology, which emphasizes how meaning emerges in and through connections between political ideas, with close readings of the vernacular and experiential dimensions of ideologies in action.
This book offers new insights into how ideologies in varied social and political settings can be decoded, and challenges hierarchical distinctions between ideological 'producers' and consumers'. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Political Ideologies.
Mathew Humphrey is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK, and co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies. His books include Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory and Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept.
David Laycock is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada, His books include The New Right and Democracy in Canada and Political Ideology in Parties, Policy and Civil Society: Interdisciplinary Insights.
Maiken Umbach is Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her books include Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany, Photography, Migration, and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story and Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept.
Ideologies in Action
Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas
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Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock and Maiken Umbach
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Contents
Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock and Maiken Umbach
Mathew Humphrey, Maiken Umbach and Zeynep Clulow
Jim Farney
David Laycock
Howard Brick
Richard Bates
Guide
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Political Ideologies, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock and Maiken Umbach Journal of Political Ideologies, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019), pp. 113-120
Chapter 1
The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course
Mathew Humphrey, Maiken Umbach and Zeynep Clulow
Journal of Political Ideologies, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019), pp. 121-138
Chapter 2
Cross-border influences or parallel developments? A process-tracing approach to the development of social conservatism in Canada and the US
Jim Farney
Journal of Political Ideologies, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019), pp. 139-157
Chapter 3
Tax revolts, direct democracy and representation: populist politics in the US and Canada
David Laycock
Journal of Political Ideologies, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019), pp. 158-181
Chapter 4
Inventing America, again
Howard Brick
Journal of Political Ideologies, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019), pp. 182-200
Chapter 5
Democratic babies? Franoise Dolto, Benjamin Spck and the ideology of post-war parenting advice
Richard Bates
Journal of Political Ideologies, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019), pp. 201-219
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Richard Bates, Department of History, University of Nottingham, UK
Howard Brick, History Department, University of Michigan, USA
Zeynep Clulow, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge, UK
Jim Farney, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina, Canada
Mathew Humphrey, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK
David Laycock, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Maiken Umbach, Department of History, University of Nottingham, UK
Mathew Humphrey, David Laycockand Maiken Limbach
ABSTRACT
This article argues for the analysis of the flow of ideological discourse through society within and across three distinct but interrelated levels: (1) the canonically defined, or macro level, (2) the intermediate or meso level of competitive political appeals, political relevant public discourse and cultural criticism, and (3) the everyday or micro level of conceptual use by non-experts. This differentiation among levels of ideological action and influence helps us to clarify the objects and appropriate methods of ideological analysis. Methods applied in specific cases must facilitate an effective focus on phenomena on one of these levels while still allowing recognition of the complex forms of direct and indirect conceptual influence and connection between the levels. The article also serves as an introduction to the volume, giving a brief account of the analysis and argument of each contribution.