Introduction to Political Theory

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

Civil Rights Movement 436–7;
bus boycotts 437–8;
desegregation laws 437;
electoral registration campaigns
439; freedom rides 438;
historical background 435–6;
King 423; sit-ins 438; United
States of America 308
Civil War in France, The(Marx)
221
clash of civilisations 394–5
Clash of Civilisations
(Huntington) 394, 395
Clash of the Fundamentalisms,
The(Ali) 387
class 230–2; citizenship 120–1;
conflict 218–19; problems with
134–6
class war: morality 222
classical ideas: equality 54–75;
freedom 34–53; power 1–10;
state 11–33
classical ideologies: critique
309–10
clemency 154
Clinton, W. (Bill) 229
close-knitness 84
Co-op stores 218
coercion 2, 22
Cohen, G. 64–6; contra Nozick
91–2; contra Rawls 92–4;
locked room 65; Marxist
perspective on distributive
justice 89–94
collateral damage 461
collective bargaining 227
collectivism 245, 248, 266
colonialism: difference 478
communicative action 415
communism: fascism 282–3
Communist Manifesto(Marx and
Engels) 121, 218, 220–1,
229–30, 453
Communist Party of Great Britain
(CPGB) 214
Communist Party states: women
319–20
communitarianism 151, 269
compromise theories 149–50
compulsion defence 403–4
compulsory voting 107
confusion: democracy 101–2
Connor, B. 440
conscientious refusal 430–4


consensus 8
consent 43–4
consequentialism 146–8; death
penalty 154–5; versus
retributivism 148
conservationists 364
conservatism 165, 193–211; basic
elements 195–7; elusive
ideology 195–7;
environmentalism 361;
experience matters 196;
fascism 284; further reading
211; human nature 196;
questions 210; rejection of
rationalism 196; rejection of
visionary politics 196; respect
for institutions 196–7; same-
sex marriage 194; summary
210; suspicion of authority
197; weblinks 211
Considerations on Representative
Government(Mill) 264
constitutional diversity:
multiculturalism 345–6; Tully
345–6
constitutional independence 24
constraint 8, 253; and force 22–3
consumerism: God 391
Contagious Diseases Act (1864)
316
contemporary ideas 399–400
Contingency, Iron and Solidarity
(Rorty) 418
contract theory 179
contractarianism 179–90;
liberalism 178–83
contractualism: human rights
412–14
Cook, R. 312
cooperation 4; socialism 215
corruption 16
cosmopolitan democracy: Held
110–12, 116
cosmopolitanism 132, 271,
486–8
Cotton, J. 112
Crick, B. 101, 102, 104, 127;
In Defence of Politics33, 164,
215
criminals 20
critical fascists 300
Cromwell, Oliver 102
cruelty: human rights 418–19
Crystal Night (1938) 290

cultural membership 344–5
cultural relativism 207
cultural traits 268
culture: multiculturalism 337–8;
rationality 353
custom 13, 41
Czech Communist Party 213
Czechoslovakia 213

Dahl, R. 110, 322; criminals 20;
government definition 14;
political system 18; polyarchies
101; Who Governs 7
Daly, M. 316, 322, 325
Darwin, C. 271–2; The Descent of
Man 272
Darwinism 271
Dawkins, R. 272, 382
de Rivera, P. 294
De Tracey, A.D. 163
Dead Man Walking(1995) 157
death penalty 142;
consequentialism 154–5;
retributivism 153–4
death row 153
decency 47
decision-making 427
Declaration of Independence
(USA) 102
deep ecology 364–7
Demanding the Impossible
(Marshall) 243–56
democracy 99–117; animals 429;
Bernstein 226; civil
disobedience 426–9; confusion
101–2; decision-making 427;
definition 3; European Union
31; exclusion 103–4; future
generations 429; liberalism
102–3; liberty 101; minorities
429; mirror theory of
representation 109; modern
tyranny 30; obedience 426–7;
participation problem 105;
participation solutions 106–7;
political correctness (pc) 115;
problems 428–9; questions
116; relational argument
113–14; representational and
direct 108; state 110–12;
violence and fundamentalism
385–6
Democracy in America
(Tocqueville) 478

Index 513
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