Contemporary political ideologies : movements and regimes / Roy C. Macridis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Political ideologies: introduction -- Pt. One. Democracy: many roots and families -- Democracy and liberalism -- Democracy and the economy: socialism, the welfare state,... capitalism again? -- The conservative tradition -- Pt. Two. Communism: the vision and the reality -- The theory and the vision: Marxism -- The reality: Leninism and Stalinism -- The collapse of communism -- Pt. Three. The authoritarian right -- The Nazi ideology and political order -- Pt. Four. 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.