Andrew Vincent 
Modern Political Ideologies 

MODERN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

Modern Political Ideologies provides a broad overview of the origins, development, and core principles of the major political ideologies of the past two centuries. With an accessible, student-friendly format, this bestselling textbook helps students understand the values, beliefs, and social forces that shape today’s political messaging, public discourse, and legislative agendas. Concise and approachable chapters describe ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, fascism, fundamentalism, and nationalism.

Retaining the student-friendly format of previous editions, the fourth edition of Modern Political Ideologies is fully revised to reflect the social changes that inform today’s political views. An entirely new chapter offers insights into the growth of populism and its effects on contemporary political dialogue, while expanded material addresses anarchism, feminism, neoliberalism, environmentalism and ‘green’ ideologies, identity politics, and other topics of current relevance.

Containing a useful glossary of key terms and extensive end notes for each chapter, Modern Political Ideologies, Fourth Edition is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate courses in political science, political ideology, political theory, comparative politics, and international relations. It is also an excellent supplement for courses in the social sciences and humanities that investigate the history of political ideas.

Table of Content

Preface to Fourth Edition viii

1 The Nature of Ideology 1

2 Liberalism 21

3 Conservatism 54

4 Socialism 80

5 Anarchism 107

6 Fascism 130

7 Feminism 157

8 Ecologism 189

9 Nationalism 216

10 Fundamentalism 249

11 Populism 278

12 Icons and Iconoclasm 303

Notes 305

Glossary 343

Bibliography 355

Index 386

About the author

ANDREW VINCENT is Professor at Cardiff University UK, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Learned Society of Wales. He is the author and co-author of ten books, three edited collections, and more than seventy articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.