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NIRU LIBRARY

Political ideologies : their origins and impact /

Baradat, Leon P., 1940-2016

Political ideologies : their origins and impact / Leon P. Baradat, John A. Phillips. - 13th ed. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020. - xxiii, 405 p, : ill ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ideology -- The spectrum of political attitudes -- Nationalism -- The evolution of democratic theory -- Liberal democracy, capitalism, and beyond -- The liberal democratic process -- Anarchism -- Socialist theory -- Applied socialism -- Fascism and national socialism -- Ideologies in the developing world -- Feminism -- Environmentalism.

"Comprehensive yet accessible, this classic text, now in its thirteenth edition follows the evolution of political thought over 300 years. Organized chronologically, this text examines each ideology within a political, historical, economic, and social context. In addition to a thorough updating of examples and data, here's what you'll find in the new edition: Analyses of President Trump's rollback of Obamacare, trade war with China, and changes to immigration, taxation and environmental policy. Conservative justifications for supply-side economics and liberal rationale for drug legalization and "trigger-word" bans. Brexit's effects on the Scottish independence movement. Resurgence of feminist protest, including the MeToo movement, alongside anarchist protest, following Trump's election, including groups like Black Bloc and Antifa. China's rising environmental and social problems, including unrest among its heavily controlled Uighur population. Cuba's transfer of power from the Castros to President Díaz-Canel, and their fraught rapprochement with the U.S. Russia's disinformation campaigns, and alternating brinksmanship and détente between Trump and North Korea's Chairman Kim Jong-un. The ascent of the Alt-right in the US, and white supremacist influence on parties in the U.S. and Europe. The continuing salience of Islamism, the teetering Iran deal, and ongoing degeneration of the Arab Spring to the Islamist Winter"--

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