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| Preface | |
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| A Note to the Student | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Ideology | |
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| The Development of Ideology | |
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| The Source of Ideology | |
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| Ideology Defined | |
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| The Origin of the Term | |
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| Contemporary Definitions | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Spectrum of Political Attitudes | |
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| Understanding the Spectrum | |
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| Change, or Policy Options | |
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| Radical | |
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| Liberal | |
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| Moderate | |
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| Conservative | |
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| Reactionary | |
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| Values, or Philosophy | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Specific Policies | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| Domestic Policy | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| The Importance of Nationalism | |
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| Nation and State | |
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| Theories of the Origin of the State | |
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| The History of Nationalism | |
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| The Theory of Nationalism | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Evolution of Democratic Theory | |
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| The Meaning of Democracy | |
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| The Early History of Democracy | |
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| The Social Contract | |
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| Later Social Contract Philosophers | |
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| Thomas Hobbes | |
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| John Locke | |
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| Jean Jacques Rousseau | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Liberal Democracy, Capitalism, and Beyond | |
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| Capitalism | |
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| Adam Smith | |
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| Neoclassical Liberal Democratic Theory | |
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| Edmund Burke | |
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| James Madison | |
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| Jefferson's Alternative | |
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| The Emergence of Social Democratic Liberalism | |
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| Utilitarianism and Positivist Law | |
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| Democratic Socialism | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Liberal Democratic Process | |
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| Processes of Democracy | |
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| Democracy and the Legislative Process | |
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| Elite Theorism | |
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| Systems of Government | |
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| The American System | |
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| The British System | |
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| Elections | |
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| Electoral Districts | |
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| Political Party Structures | |
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| Representation | |
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| Theories of Representation | |
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| Some Criticisms of Democracy | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Anarchism | |
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| Development of Anarchism | |
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| Definition of Anarchism | |
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| Particular Theories of Anarchism | |
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| The Pacifists | |
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| The Revolutionaries | |
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| Individualist Anarchists | |
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| Militant Civilian Militias | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Socialist Theory | |
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| The Development of Socialism | |
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| Communism and Socialism | |
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| The Meaning of Socialism | |
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| Ownership of Production | |
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| The Welfare State | |
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| The Socialist Intent | |
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| The History of Socialism | |
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| From the French Revolution to Marx | |
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| Marxism | |
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| The Basic Principles of Marxism | |
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| Marxist Sociological Theory | |
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| Marxist Historical Theory | |
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| Marxist Economic Theory | |
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| Marxist Theory of Revolution | |
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| The Marxist Political System | |
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| Internationalism | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Applied Socialism | |
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| Socialism after Marx | |
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| Orthodox Marxism | |
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| Revisionism | |
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| Marxism-Leninism | |
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| The Soviet Union and Russia | |
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| Lenin's and Stalin's Policies | |
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| Soviet Atrophy | |
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| China | |
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| The Belligerent Stage of the Revolution | |
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| The Political Stage of the Revolution | |
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| The Principles of Maoism | |
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| Cuba | |
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| The Cuban Revolution | |
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| Fidelismo | |
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| The Re-emergence of Socialism | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Fascism and National Socialism | |
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| The Failure of Democracy and Capitalism | |
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| The Development of Fascism and National Socialism | |
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| Mussolini | |
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| Hitler | |
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| Fascist and Nazi Ideologies | |
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| Irrationalism | |
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| Racism | |
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| Totalitarianism | |
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| Elitism | |
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| The Corporate State | |
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| Imperialism | |
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| Militarism | |
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| Contemporary Fascist and Neo-Nazi Movements | |
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| Right-Wing Extremism in the United States | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Ideologies in the Developing World | |
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| Developing World Defined | |
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| Politics of the Developing World | |
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| Economics of the Developing World | |
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| Developing World Democracies and Dictatorships | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Guided Democracies | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Feminism and Ecologism/Environmentalism | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Sexism Is Endemic | |
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| The History of Feminism | |
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| Feminist Thought | |