Political Science 225 POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES Fall 2011 CRN 16448 September 27 – December 6 TR 12.00-13.50 100 Library Professor: Sebastián Urioste surioste@uoregon.edu Office: PLC, room 806 Office Hours: F 10.00-01.00 COURSE DESCRIPTION Whether considered as a distortion of reality or a coherent frame to analyze it, due to the large range of definitions it can suppose and the vast polemics it can provoke, ideology is maybe one of the most employed expressions in daily political life or in academia. Indeed, the beliefs and values concerning the exercise of authority can generate opposite systems of ideas regarding how to interpret human nature and how to orient social life, thus those systems may also produce conflicting approaches on how to define and apply politics. As matter of fact, the 20th century can be comprehended as a brutal battleground for sets of ideas that still shape contemporary policy debates. Therefore, this course seeks to examine core concepts and the development of political programs of liberalism (classical and modern), conservatism (traditional, neoliberal and neo-conservatism), socialism (communism and social democracy), anarchism, fascism, feminism, ecologism, religious fundamentalism and indigenism. At the same time, we will discuss the place and characterization of ideology itself in the 21 st century. REQUIRED READING Two texts are assigned for the course: Andrew Heywood, 2007, Political Ideologies: An Introduction (H) Terence Ball & Richard Dagger, 2009, Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader (BD) 1