Politics: The Basics, 4th Edition

(Miliband, 1969: 268). But he conceded that ‘the British political system does incorporate a number of democratic features which ...

however, was more concerned to preserve its control over the bulk of the trade union movement and with its parliamentary electab ...

John Ball, the priest who led the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381, was one of many popular leaders who placed a more radical interpreta ...

‘fundamentalism’ with intolerance, fanaticism, terrorism and the like (Said, 1987). Historically there is little evidence for su ...

with ideas with which it is often, in practice, confused. Thus, in the Middle East, nationalism, pan-Arabism and Islam are often ...

that studies the relationship between organisms and their physical environment. As scientific study has proceeded, the multiple ...

may concentrate on individual problems pragmatically. Deep ecolo- gists call for a total change of attitude by humans to recogni ...

envisaged women participating on an equal basis in government in classical times. As early as 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft was argui ...

88 IDEOLOGIES Table 4.1 Attitudes to gender differences Radical Moderate Conservative feminist feminist Problem Patriarchy: ggov ...

Thus Marxist feminists tend to follow Engels in seeing the exploitation of women as being part of the capitalist phenomena of a ...

Christian democrat parties on the right and socialist parties on the left. The Liberal International is a formal expression of t ...

individual to express his or her own moral values through free speech, choice of occupation and way of life. John Stuart Mill’s ...

The third phase of ‘social’ liberalism is associated in Britain with the political careers, speeches and writings of Lloyd Georg ...

well as secular authority will also be evident. Nationalism and support for ‘family values’ will usually also be found. In the a ...

Whigs’ by adopting popular social measures. The Liberals were often reluctant, because of their ideological commitment to laisse ...

Friedman (Friedman and Friedman, 1980), and was advocated by Ronald Reagan in his Republican presidential campaigns. Its most su ...

In continental Europe, of course, the moderate centre-right position held by the Conservatives in Britain is occupied in many co ...

As Irving argues (p. xxi), Christian democracy shares conservative values of individualism, respect for property, anti-communism ...

Representation Committee to represent organised labour in Parlia- ment. Only in 1918 did the LRC become the Labour Party, allow ...

coercive and violent tactics, given the presence of a liberal democratic state with opportunities for peaceful and constitutiona ...