Contemporary political ideologies movements and regimes

[This book] features lucid accounts of the political ideas that define the most important political controversies of our time. Professor Mark Hulliung has prepared a timely revision of the late Roy Macridis's leading text. Five chapters are new to this edition. This sixth edition offers a more...

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Main Author: Macridis, Roy C.
Other Authors: Hulliung, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Harper Collins College Publisher 1996
Edition:6th ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Political ideologies : introduction
  • Part 1: Democracy : many roots and families
  • Democracy and liberalism
  • Democracy and the economy : socialism, the welfare state ... capitalism again?
  • The conservative tradition
  • Part 2: Communism : the vision and the reality
  • The theory and the vision : Marxism
  • The reality : Leninism and Stalinism
  • The collapse of Communism
  • Part 3: The authoritarian right
  • The intellectual roots of fascism
  • The Nazi ideology and political order
  • Part 4: Old voices and new
  • Nationalisms
  • The religious impulse : liberation theology and religious fundamentalism
  • Red flags/black flags : Marxists against anarchists
  • Student rebellion in the late 1960s : America and France
  • Multiculturalism and the politics of identity
  • Whither liberal democracy!