Ideology: Comparative and Cultural Status

ISBN-13: 9780202309934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 334 str.

Mostafa Rejai

Opis

Since the early 1950s, the "decline of ideology" hypothesis has commanded a great deal of attention in the intellectual community at large. Th e controversy has taken both empirical and polemical turns. Th is book concentrates on the empirical literature, off ering both original contributions and previously published papers of outstanding importance. Selections were made to give full play to freshness of view and diversity of sources.

Spis treści

Political Ideology: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives I The Hypothesis 1 The Passing of Fanaticism 2 The End of Ideology? II Empirical and Comparative Perspectives 3 Europe: The Politics of Collective Bargaining 4 Finland: Institutionalized Radicalism 5 The Netherlands: From Politics to Administration 6 The United States: Politics of Affluence 7 Japan: The Erosion of Ideology 8 The Soviet Union: Ideology in Retreat Ill Critique 9 A Dissenting View 10 Empirical Relevance of the Hypothesis of Decline 11 Anti-Ideological Thought in France 12 The Student Movement and the End of the End of Ideology 13 Toward a Radical Alternative

O autorze

Rejai, Mostafa