This informative and widely used text is now available in a third edition. Building on the success of previous editions, it continues to provide a clear and accessible introduction to the complexities of political ideologies. The new edition of Political Ideologies: An Introduction : introduces and considers the future of all the most widely studied ideologies: Liberalism; Conservatism; Socialism; Democracy; Nationalism; Fascism; Ecologism and Feminism sets each ideology clearly within its historical and political context includes a new final chapter that examines the impact of recent theoretical developments of ideologies and charts the challenges that they face in the 21st century has been fully revised and up-dated and provides an annotated guide for further reading.

Author Biography

Robert Eccleshall, Vincent Geoghegan, Moya Lloyd, Iain Mackenzie and Rick Wilford are all members of the Politics Department at Queen's University, Belfast. Michael Kenny lectures in Politics at University of Sheffield. Alan Findlayson is at the University of Wales, Swansea.