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Cover -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- Using this Book -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introducing Political Ideas -- Role of political ideas -- Understanding political ideologies -- Leftand right-wing ideas -- Further reading -- Part 1 TRADITIONAL POLITICAL IDEAS -- Chapter 2 Liberalism -- Historical overview -- Core ideas and principles -- Types of liberalism -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Chapter 3 Conservatism -- Historical overview -- Core ideas and principles -- Types of conservatism -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Chapter 4 Socialism -- Historical overview -- Core ideas and principles -- Types of socialism -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Part 2 OTHER POLITICAL IDEAS -- Chapter 5 Anarchism -- Historical overview -- Core ideas and principles -- Types of anarchism -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Chapter 6 Nationalism -- Historical overview -- Core ideas and principles -- Types of nationalism -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Chapter 7 Feminism -- Historical overview -- Core ideas and principles -- Types of feminism -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Chapter 8 Ecologism -- Historical overview -- Core ideas and principles -- Types of ecologism -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Chapter 9 Multiculturalism -- Historical overview -- Core ideas and principles -- Types of multiculturalism -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Uses and Abuses of Political Concepts -- What is a concept? -- Normative and descriptive concepts -- Contested concepts -- Words and things -- Key Concepts: Their Meaning and Significance -- Absolutism -- Accountability -- Anarchism -- Anarchy -- Animal rights -- Anti-politics -- Arms race -- Authoritarianism -- Authority -- Autonomy -- Balance of power -- Behaviouralism -- Bicameralism -- Bill of rights -- Bureaucracy -- Cabinet -- Capitalism -- Centralization/decentralization -- Checks and balances -- Christian democracy -- Citizenship -- Civil disobedience -- Civil liberty -- Civil society -- Coalition -- Collective security -- Collectivism -- Collectivization -- Committee -- Communism -- Communitarianism -- Community -- Conflict of civilizations -- Confucianism -- Consensus -- Consent -- Conservatism -- Consociationalism -- Constitution -- Constitutionalism -- Constructivism -- Consumerism -- Corporatism -- Cosmopolitanism -- Crimes against humanity -- Critical theory -- Cross-generational justice -- Democracy -- Democratic peace -- Democratization -- Deterrence -- Development -- Devolution -- Dialectic -- Dictatorship -- Diplomacy -- Discourse -- Ecologism -- Election -- Elitism -- Empiricism -- Equality -- Executive -- Failed state -- Fascism -- Federalism -- Feminism -- Free trade -- Freedom -- Functionalism -- Game theory -- Gender -- Geopolitics -- Global civil society -- Global governance -- Global justice -- Globalization -- Governance -- Government -- Great power -- Hard/soft power -- Hegemony -- Historical materialism -- Human development -- Human nature -- Human rights -- Humanitarian intervention -- Idealism -- Identity politics -- Ideology -- Imperialism -- Individualism -- Institutionalism -- Interdependence -- Intergovernmentalism -- International aid -- International law.