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The Western Ideology and Other Essays.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gamble, Andrew
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Political science > Philosophy.
Ideology > Western countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • The Western Ideology and Other Essays
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: An Intellectual Journey
  • Intellectual and political influences
  • Notes on the Essays
  • Theme 1: Hayek and neo-liberalism
  • Theme 2: Socialism and social democracy
  • Theme 3: Oakeshott and conservatism
  • Theme 4: Politics and fate
  • 1 The Western Ideology1
  • Modernity and the West
  • Liberal political economy
  • Critiques of the western ideology
  • The future of the western ideology
  • 2 Neo-liberalism and the Tax State1
  • Strands of neo-liberalism
  • Neo-liberalism and classical liberalism
  • Three types of household
  • The tax state
  • Fiscal conservatism and economic crisis
  • 3 Ideas and Interests in British Economic Policy1
  • Political economy and public policy
  • Individualism and collectivism
  • Rise of collectivism reversed?
  • The process of mass democracy
  • Doctrines in the marketplace of ideas
  • The interest critique
  • Dominance of special interests in policy goals
  • Marxist model of class interests
  • Public choice theory and public goods
  • The public policy critique
  • Political pressures, not 'meaningless abstractions', the key?
  • Incremental solutions to policy problems
  • No final victory?
  • The rediscovery of civil association
  • 4 Hayek on Knowledge, Economics and Society1
  • The division of knowledge
  • The knowledge of other minds
  • Unintended consequences: two kinds of rationalism
  • Economics and policy
  • 5 Marxism After Communism1
  • Crawling from the wreckage
  • Transcending historicism
  • Transcending realism
  • Imperialism and war
  • Hegemony
  • Accumulation and regulation
  • The reproduction of capital
  • The future of Marxism
  • 6 G.D.H. Cole and the History of Socialist Thought1
  • Life
  • What is socialism?
  • State action and cooperation
  • Marxism
  • Marx and Marxism
  • Parliamentary socialism
  • 7 Social Democracy in a Global World1
  • Social democracy in one country
  • Contemporary dilemmas of social democratic politics
  • Engagement and disengagement: where have all the citizens gone?
  • Accountability and sovereignty: do governments decide anything any more?
  • Complexity and knowledge: can citizens participate in decision-making?
  • Conclusion
  • 8 The Quest for a Great Labour Party1
  • The 1931 crisis
  • The project for a Great Labour Party
  • The inevitability of gradualism
  • The extraparliamentary road
  • MacDonald's legacy
  • 9 Oakeshott's Ideological Politics1
  • Ideology
  • Oakeshott and the conservative disposition
  • Oakeshott and the liberal disposition
  • 10 Oakeshott and Totalitarianism1
  • The concept of totalitarianism
  • Social and political doctrines of contemporary Europe
  • Faith and scepticism
  • Civil association and enterprise association
  • Conclusion
  • 11 The Drifter's Escape1
  • Alienation and the American Dream
  • Apocalypse now
  • The political world
  • The prison