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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The "Meaning" of Left and Right -- 3 Ideology, Dimensionality, and Asymmetry -- 4 The Structure and Content of Left / Right Differences -- 5 Left / Right Positions and Polarization -- 6 Left / Right Persistence and Evolution -- 7 Citizens' Left / Right Orientations -- 8 The Rise of Left / Right in Canadian Politics -- 9 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Shadows : projecting left and right -- Truths : voting against Pythagoras -- Goods : freedom, justice and more -- Likes : the art of the cheeseburger -- Hopes : flying and singing -- Ethics : the gold that rules -- Timing : worry about that later -- Capitals : sacred cows and other forms -- Limits : the known limitations of markets -- Regulations : well-regulated capitalism -- Taxes : looking high and low -- Strategies : two sides, many arenas -- Dynamics : the evolution of death -- Intentions : the road to Hell -- Distractions : 500,000 is more than 43.

A clash over equality -- A worldwide value divide -- Two tales of globalization -- The rise of the modern state system (1776-1945) -- The age of universality (1945-1980) -- The triumph of market democracy (1980-2007) -- Twenty-first-century rapprochement -- The core currency of political exchange.

A psychological approach to the study of political ideology -- The end of the end of ideology -- Elective affinities : the intersection of "top-down" and "bottom-up" processes -- Political conservatism as motivated social cognition -- The secret lives of liberals and conservatives : dispositional and situational factors -- Authoritarian aggression, group-based dominance, and the liberal conundrum -- Ideological asymmetries and the essence of political psychology -- The promise and pitfalls of political neuroscience -- Epilogue: The values of a political psychologist.

Two Italian writers, Gaetano Mosca and Antonio Gramsci, have been very influential in twentieth-century political thought, the first cast as a thoroughgoing conservative, the second as the model of a humanistic Marxist. The author of this provocative book-the first systematic study of the connection between the two men-maintains that they are closer to each other than is commonly supposed-that they in fact belong to the same political tradition of democratic elitism.Maurice A. Finocchiaro argues that Gramsci's political theory is a constructive critique of Mosca's and that the key common element is the attempt to combine democracy and elitism in a theoretical system that defines them not as opposite but as compatible and interdependent. Finocchiaro finds that a critical examination of the major works of the two men demonstrates their shared belief in the viability of democratic elitism and undermines the importance of the distinction between right and left