Contemporary political ideologies: movements and regimes

Political ideologies: introduction

Democracy: many roots and families

Democracy and liberalism

Democracy and the economy: socialism, the welfare state,... capitalism again?

The conservative tradition

Communism: the vision and the reality

The theory and the vision: Marxism

The reality: Leninism and Stalinism

The collapse of communism

The authoritarian right

The Nazi ideology and political order

Old voices and new

Nationalisms

The religious impulse: liberation theology and religious fundamentalism

Feminism

Environmentalism: an ideology in the making?

Ideologies of revolution: hints and fragments

Ideologies and the future: some of concluding remarks.