ESPS7104 Ideologies and political hegemony

Write and submit an essay of 2,500 words by Thursday 11 December 2014.

1. Are all sets of political ideas ideologies, or only some?

2. Antonio Gramsci argued that the capitalist class system is upheld not
simply by unequal economic and political power, but by what he termed
the hegemony of bourgeois ideas and theories. Discuss.
3. Why has Conservatism been described as a philosophy of imperfection?
4. How does the liberal view of property differ from the conservative view?
5. To what extent is socialism defined by its rejection of capitalism?
6. In what sense is fascism a revolutionary creed?
7. To what extent is globalisation synonymous with neoliberalism?
8. To what extent can the goals of ecologism only be achieved through
radical social change?
9. To what extent can feminism engage with the politics of difference?
10.Populism has an essential chameleonic quality that means it always takes
on the hue of the environment in which it occurs. Discuss.
11.Politics can exist without ideology. Discuss.