Liberalism as Ideology

Ben Jackson works on modern British history, with particular interests in political thought, labour history, and the history of social and economic policy. He is the author of Equality and the British Left (2007), and is currently writing about the intellectual history of neo-liberalism. He is Fellow in History at University College, Oxford.Marc Stears was previously Fellow in Social and Political Sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the author of books and articles in radical political theory and concentrates especially on the role that radical movements have played in shaping modern democracies. He is currently Fellow in Politics at University College, Oxford.

Freeden has made... a distinguished contribution

• Acknowledgements ; List of Contributors ; Preface: Return of the Native ; Introduction ; PART I: LIBERAL LANGUAGES ; 1. A Cautious Embrace: Reflections on (Left) Liberalism and Utopia ; 2. Socialism and the New Liberalism ; 3. Liberalisms in India: An Exploratory Sketch ; 4. Liberalism and American Stories of Peoplehood ; 5. The Liberal Dilemma: The Economic and the Social, and the Need for a European Contextualization of a Concept with Universal Pretensions ; 6. The Problem of Political Parties in Western Liberalism, 1868-1968 ; PART II: IDEOLOGIES AND POLITICAL THEORY ; 7. Liberalism and Analytical Political Philosophy ; 8. Political Ideology and Political Theory: Reflections on an Awkward Partnership ; 9. Ideology, Political Philosophy, and the Interpretive Enterprise: A View from the Other Side ; 10. Civil Society and the Reconstruction of the Public Sphere: Ideologies between Theory and Politics ; 11. In Defence of Political Understanding? ; 12. Getting 'Real' About Political Ideas: Conceptual Morphology and the Realist Critique of Anglo-American Political Philosophy ; 13. The Professional Responsibilities of the Political Theorist ; Michael Freeden: A Bibliography