Introduction to Political Theory

judgement – both were wrong. Academic political theory differs from the theory of the public political world, but it is still po ...

Glossary Abstraction A conceptual and practical process that mystifies and conceals underlying social relationships. Affirmative ...

Conflict A clash of interests that can be tackled through violence, but only resolved through non-statist pressures. Conflicts o ...

Equality of opportunity The equalisation of the opportunity to acquire certain things, or, at least, guaranteeing that each pers ...

Harm Damage to somebody or something; normally, damage to a person’s fundamental interests. Hierarchy An asymmetrical linkage th ...

Market A mechanism that enables exchanges to occur, but in a way which conceals the real power that people possess. Marxism A th ...

Political violence The use of violence sometimes in situations in which people have reasonable avenues of peaceful protest. Poli ...

Rights Entitlements in law or simply as part of morality that do not involve harming oneself or others. Slavery A term that embr ...

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Abolition of Slavery Act (1807) 160 abortion 319, 390 Abou El Fadl, K. 395 absolute fairness 427 Abu Nidal group 447 academic po ...

Bebel, A.: Women Under Socialism 319 behaviouralism 16, 19 Beitz, C. 487–8 Belfast: pro-IRA mural 466 belief 402 Bellamy, R. and ...

Civil Rights Movement 436–7; bus boycotts 437–8; desegregation laws 437; electoral registration campaigns 439; freedom rides 438 ...

Democracy and Disobedience (Singer) 426–9 democratic conception 82–3 democratic socialism 223 democratic states 9 Derrida, J. 47 ...

European Social Movement 300 European Union (EU) 30; citizenship 131–2; market and democracy 31 evangelical Christians 391 evang ...

socialism 215; thought and expression 40–1; unfreedom versus inability 38–9; weblinks 53 Freedom Party (Austria) 281 freedom rid ...

Hobbes, T. 12, 14; human nature 182; Leviathan114, 124, 178, 179, 446; liberalism 182–3; nature 57; prisoner dilemma 179–82; sta ...

King, Martin Luther: Civil Rights Movement 423, 435–42; Letter from Birmingham City Jail 424, 439–42 Kingdom of Ends (Kant) 185 ...

Miliband, R. 294, 295 military spending 461 Mill, J.S. 2, 146–7; Considerations on Representative Government 264; dangers of maj ...

New Right: citizenship 123–4; Romania 301 new social movements 305–10; anarchism 249–50 NGOs (non-governmental organisations) 31 ...

pornography 53n, 325 positive discrimination 55 positive liberty 36–7 postmodern feminism 329–30 postmodernism: difference 470–3 ...