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Political Science 5W Political Ideologies WEEK ONE SLIDES
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Communal vs. Individual “The partnership arising from [the union of] several villages that is complete is the city. It reaches a level of full self-sufficiency so to speak; and while coming into being for the sake of living, it exists for the sake of living well.” – Aristotle, The Politics, Book I.
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Political Compass
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American Politics a Mix
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A Less Serious Compass
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What Informs Our Political Beliefs?
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Informed by Moral Foundations
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Recommended Readings Recommended Readings on Classical Liberalism Locke’s Second Treatise in Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge Text) by John Locke Liberalism: The Classical Tradition by Ludwig von Mises Rights of Man by Thomas Paine On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Federalist Papers by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay
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Recommended Readings Recommended Readings on Modern Liberalism Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens What Government Can Do by Benjamin I. Page and James Roy Simmons Rendezvous With Destiny by Eric F. Goldman The Good Society by Walter Lippmann A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism by John Rawls An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles Beard The Good Society: The Humane Agenda by John Kenneth Galbraith New Republic MagazineThe Huffington Post
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Recommended Readings Recommended Readings on Conservatism Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D’Souza Conservatism: Dream and Reality by Robert Nisbet The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk Conservatism by Jerry Z. Muller Revolt Against Modernity by Ted V. McAllister The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George H. Nash Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought edited by William F. Buckley and Charles Kesler Ricochet.comNational Review Magazine
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Recommended Readings Recommended Readings on Libertarianism The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek The Libertarian Reader by David Boaz Libertarianism: A Primer by David Boaz The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick The Future and Its Enemies by Virginia Postrel Reason MagazineThe Volokh Conspiracy
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Recommended Readings Recommended Readings on Conservatism Letters to a Young Activist by Todd Gitlin Marx: Selected Writings edited by Lawrence H. Simon The Marx-Engels Reader edited by Robert C. Tucker A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Against Capitalism by David Schweickart lluminations by Walter Benjamin www.marxists.orgThe Nation Magazine
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What is Your Ideology? http://www.politicalcompass.org/
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