Taking Ideology Seriously : 21st Century Reconfigurations (Hardcover)

Introduction: How Should We Study Ideologies in the 21st Century? 1. Restructuring the Public Sphere: Contemporary Ideologies between Theory and Politics 2. Visions of Popular Sovereignty: Mapping the Contested Terrain of Contemporary Western Populisms 3. Abasso l’antagonismo? Poststructuralist Reflections on Ideologies in Modern Italy 4. Ideological Polarization and Legislative Performance in Presidential Systems 5. Radical and Plural Democracy: In Defence of Right/Left and Public Reason 6. Al-Qaeda: Ideology and Action Jeff Haynes 7. The End of Ideology and the End of an Ideology? Ecology, Liberalism, and Ideological Analysis 8. A Globalist Ideology of Post-Marxism? Hardt and Negri's Empire 9. Conclusions: Confronting the Chimera of a 'Post-Ideological' Age