Politics: The Basics, 4th Edition

The influential version of communitarianism propagated by Etzioni accepts the liberal legacy of individual rights and a pre- sum ...

It may be questioned, however, whether the doctrine as so far developed has been able to fully confront the economic and social ...

Similar to the Eccleshall book above with additional chapters on religious fundamentalism and anarchism but no separate chapter ...

PROCESSES This chapter examines how people come to identify with particular kinds of political groups. It analyses the variety o ...

(Hindu); or class/occupation – Labour, Peasant. Indeed, if we look behind the official name of political parties, we find that t ...

attitudes. It is also probable that influences in early adulthood, when habits of voting or other forms of political participati ...

Attitudes to democracy vary markedly in different countries. Dia- mond (in LeDuc et al., 2002: 217–221) quotes a variety of stud ...

Localism, nationalism, religion and ethnicity One sort of division which seems to be almost universal in larger political system ...

between the interests of Yorkshire and Lancashire without either ceasing to feel loyalty to England. Divisions between England a ...

running takeaways and restaurants) in an otherwise undivided community may be almost invisible. A similar sized group that owns ...

in traditional Hindu society. However it is clear that religious, linguistic, tribal and other ethnic factors loom large in the ...

The importance of racism is dramatically illustrated if we consider the history of ethnic relations in US cities. Waves of ethni ...

greatly to the development of a distinctive American culture and interbred extensively with the white population. However, it wa ...

victim out-group as sub-human and inferior as discussed earlier in this chapter. An alternative approach to the management of et ...

situations of dominance where frequently such conflicts are officially denied any existence. A distinction should be drawn betwe ...

historically three main models have been used in discussing this issue: elite theorists who see the main political division as b ...

despite decades of ‘progressive’ taxation and the welfare state. Similarly the educational and health opportunities of the worki ...

Yet important differences of perspective do remain (Table 5.3). In the end readers will need to make a personal judgement about ...

democratic nation state. Yet it is only necessary to imagine that, instead, you had been born in the former Soviet Union to real ...

Most elite theorists have been unimpressed with the likelihood of real political change, since they see elites as holding all th ...