Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader

As a complement to the author’s text Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal or for use independently, this anthology contains key selections from a wide array of original sources. Ideals and Ideologies spans the spectrum of the major isms that have had a profound effect on politics in our time. Retaining the essays from the previous editions, Terence Ball and Richard Dagger have added several new essays including Malcolm X Speaks , and Thomas Spragen’s The Limitations of Libertarianism , to reflect current political trends. The authors have also edited the selections to make them more reader-friendly, and have added footnotes to clarify allusions and translate foreign phrases.