Introduction to Political Theory

Further reading Useful general works on punishment (collections, readers and overviews) include: R.A. Duff and David Garland (ed ...

Part 2 Classical ideologies What is ideology? The term ideology has acquired a fairly unsavoury meaning. Politicians regularly c ...

However, the term soon became pejorative: Napoleon denounced ideology as an idea that was radical, sinister, doctrinaire and abs ...

Isms as ideologies Liberals often argue that their values are too coherent and rational to be called ideological. Here is a beli ...

‘natural’ institution that is necessary to keep ‘fallen’ men and women in order. This makes conservatism ideological. It is true ...

view, is ideological in a general sense: all nationalists use beliefs to galvanise their followers into action around a state bu ...

lead us to the position in which we note the ideology of the Nazi and the (rather different) ideology of his victim, and lamely ...

can be non-evaluative or purely factual in character; second, it fails to see that ideology can be transcended, not by avoiding ...

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Chapter 8 Liberalism Introduction Liberalism has emerged as the world’s dominant ideology, and much of the political debate of ‘ ...

Prostitution laws in Sweden I n 1998 the Swedish Parliament passed the Prohibition of the Purchase of Sexual Services Act. The A ...

The meaning of liberalism Liberalism has emerged as the world’s dominant ideology. Europe provides a good example of the spread ...

institutions. Understanding such attitudes is primarily the focus of empirical political science, using quantitative methods suc ...

not only that the priesthood played a special part in interpreting scripture, but that the Church, because it was founded by Chr ...

see, some theorists attribute the rise of national consciousness to the translation of the Bible into the vernacular languages o ...

Toleration The settlement of the Wars of Religion is credited with making toleration a central concept of political life, and in ...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the ‘circle of toleration’ is extended to include previously untolerated groups, and ...

basis), the concerns which motivated the work cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the contemporary world. Hobbes was the first ...

sum game: a gain for one prisoner does not result in an equivalent loss for the other. The explanation of how, through cooperati ...

The preference ordering of each prisoner is identical to the first version. The difference lies in the respective pay-offs from ...