The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis

Introduction
Juliette Faure, Mathew Humphrey and David Laycock

SECTION I: Theory and methods of analysis

1. The three traditions of ideological analysis and the levels-of-analysis problem
Jonathan Leader Maynard

2. Ideology writ large: macroscopic compass or flawed totality
Michael Freeden

3. Analysing the ideologies of radical groups
Sean Fleming

4. Tools and debates in computational studies of online circulation of ideology: The case of the French radical right
Benjamin Tainturier

SECTION II: Historiography of ideological change

5. Liberalism and capitalist development: Outline for a comparative intellectual history
Teddy Paikin

6. Plebeian internationalism: Building the “Universal Republic” in 19th-century social movements
Niklas Plaetzer

7. Towards an environmental and contextualist history of anarchist ideology: Preventing the (over)greening of anarchism
Léo Grillet

SECTION III: Defining and identifying ideologies

8. Ideology, discourse, strategy: What exactly is populism?
J. A. Scott

9. Anti-racist ideology
Teun A. van Dijk

10. Ideology, genealogy and the function of performative violence in antisemitism
Maiken Umbach

11. The radical right and the ideologies of post-postmodern conservatism
Jean-François Drolet and Michael C. Williams

SECTION IV: Institutions and networks as ideological vectors

12. The role of advocacy think tanks: The war of ideas through research
Julien Landry and Guillaume Lamy

13. Political parties as vehicles of ideologies
Eunice Goes

14. News, ideology and climate change: “You cannot begrudge people for wanting to feel better”
Darren Fleet, Shane Gunster and Robert Neubauer

15. The International of Conservative Intellectuals: Transnational networks, illiberal inputs and ideological flexibility
Valentin Behr and Anemona Constantin

16. Political elites, ideas and public policy: How ideologies and ideational transmission shape policy stability and change
Ewan Robertson

SECTION V: Exploring places of latent ideology

17. Ideology in the workplace: A psychological perspective on the hyper-normalisation of neoliberal beliefs
Matthijs Bal, Roxana Alhnaity and Francesco Tommasi

18. Analysing ideology in visual messages
Mary Angela Bock

19. The political psychology of ideology: Examining the palliative effects of ideology in the public
Danny Osborne and Joaquín Bahamondes

20. Non-human ideology: Samuel Johnson and animal studies
James P. Carson

SECTION VI: Technology and futurity

21. New and emerging technologies as the locus of ideology
Axel Gelfert

22. Transhumanism as ideology
Apolline Taillandier

23. Science fiction and/as ideology
Sherryl Vint

SECTION VII: Ideological development across the continents

24. Populism, ideology and politics in Latin America
Felipe Burbano de Lara

25. Ideological engineering in the evolution of China’s “Common values of all mankind” in the era of Xi Jinping
Heike Holbig

26. A meso-level sociology of philosophy approach to modern Confucianism
Ralph Weber

27. The rise of Hindutva: Contemporary political ideology in India
Aditi Bhatia

28. Political elite discourses polarise attitudes toward immigration along ideological lines: A comparative longitudinal analysis of Europe in the 21st century
Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran and Christian S. Czymara

29. Countering the myth of Russia’s “ideological vacuum”: Three alternative ways of doing ideology in post-Soviet times
Juliette Faure and Guillaume Sauvé

30. The Christian Right in the United States: Mobilisation and ideology
Leonard Williams and Clyde Wilcox

31. Rethinking political corruption and ideology within African communalism
Beatrice Okyere-Manu and Kow Kwegya Amissah Abraham

Biography

Juliette Faure is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lille, France.

Mathew Humphrey is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK.

David Laycock is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

“This comprehensive collection of cutting-edge work confirms what its authors have been telling us for decades: reports of the end of ideology are greatly exaggerated. The category remains descriptive of how politics happens across diverse settings and provides a crucial conceptual framework for understanding contemporary political actors, institutions and movements. The wide-ranging, grounded, and theoretically innovative chapters collected here are a remarkable resource for thinking, research and teaching. This could not have come at better time.”

Darin Barney, McGill University, Canada

“This is a remarkably strong volume, invaluable for anyone interested in the history, sociology, and theory of contemporary ideologies. The texts gathered here shed new light on the ways ideologies are produced, disseminated, and received. In a world where ideas truly matter, this book makes a vital contribution to our collective capacity to navigate it.”

Samuel Hayat, Sciences Po Paris, France

“Ideology analysis has been a fertile and versatile field in the study of politics. This wide-ranging and cutting-edge volume beautifully demonstrates its continued vitality. It will be essential reading for students of politics in all its dimensions.”

Cécile Laborde, University of Oxford, UK

“Ideologies abound in the contemporary world but can rarely be reduced to a few canonical texts. This volume shows us how to study them as elements in a wider ecology of institutions, organisations and communications, from parties and think-tanks to workplaces and digital platforms. An invaluable contribution to renewing the field.”  

Jonathan White, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK