Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal

Now in its 12th edition, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal continues the tradition of clear, concise and comprehensive explanation to the ideas and ideals that shape our political world. The text defines each ideology in terms of the four functions ideologies perform - explanation, evaluation, orientation, and political program.

Terence Ball received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and is now Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Arizona State University. He taught previously at the University of Minnesota and has held visiting professorships at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and the University of California, San Diego. His books include Transforming Political Discourse (1988), Reappraising Political Theory (1995), and a mystery novel, Rousseau's Ghost (1998). He has also edited The Federalist (2003), James Madison (2008), Abraham Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches (2013), and coedited The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought (2003).

Richard Dagger earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and has taught at Arizona State University and Rhodes College, and the University of Richmond, Virginia, where he is currently the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts. He is the author of many publications in political and legal philosophy, including Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism (1997) and Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problem of Punishment (2018).

Daniel I. O'Neill received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (2007); co-editor of Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman (2008); and author, most recently, of Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire (2016). From 2017 to 2023 he co-edited one of the flagship journals of the American Political Science Association, Perspectives on Politics.

Jennet Kirkpatrick holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and is now a Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Virtues of Exit and Uncivil Disobedience. She has published articles in The Journal of American Politics, Political Theory, The Review of Politics, Dissent, Theoria, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Contemporary Political Theory, and American Political Thought. An award-winning teacher, she teaches and writes about political resistance, film, morality and politics, and feminist theory.