By Nancy Sue Love
A better half to "Understanding Dogmas and goals: A Text", this paintings introduces the reader to the background and evolution of the most different types of political ideology together with socialism, fascism, anarchism, conservativism, liberalism and democracy. a brand new part has been further on environmentalism.
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Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference Audre Lorde 532 36. La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness Gloria Anzaldúa 540 Part Seven Environmentalism and Ecology 553 37. Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson 559 38. Silent Spring Rachel Carson 569 39. The Land Ethic Aldo Leopold 575 40. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit Al Gore 584 41. The Program of the Green Party of the Federal Republic of Germany 596 42. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World Carolyn Merchant 606 About the Author 616 Page xv INTRODUCTION IDEOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY Ideology and democracy.
He answers that history involves a dialectic between ideas and needs. Only when both converge is an ideology created. 19 He concludes that a philosophy becomes an ideology when it provides a framework for political action to meet social needs. Still, too much can be made of the theory/ideology distinction. Some scholars recognize that political theory is seldom above the political fray. Often the best way to understand a theory is to see it in historical context. According to Richard Ashcraft, the dominance of philosophical methods in political theory has led to the denigration of political ideologies.
Mill's critique of direct de- Page 3 mocracy reveals why restraint is also necessary. , the laboring class) rules, are prone to collective mediocrity and class conflict. Representation, to anticipate Madison, refines and enlarges the public views. But representation alone is inadequate. Mill also distinguishes true from false democracy. In false democracies, the majority effectively disenfranchises the minority by outvoting it in every district. In true democracies, proportional representation guarantees some minority seats.