24th November 2017 by

Extract – Parliament

Fun n Tips12. To work together for the common good does not, in any way, entail sacrificing the distinctive stories and…

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6th October 2015 by

Extract: Ian Gilmour on Conservative Ideologies

source Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the 20th Century byE.H.H. Green Oxford, 309 pp, £25.00, February 2002, ISBN 0 19 820593 7 Statecraft: Strategies…

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9th September 2015 by

Advanced Article: the Conservative Critique of Liberalism*

source The Conservative Critique of Liberalism John Skorupski University of St Andrews 1. Philosophical Liberalism and Liberal Order There is a…

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9th September 2015 by

Weblinks and Reading

Visit Duncan Hall’s textbook companion site : A2 Government and Politics: Ideologies and Ideologies in Action Visit the BBC Radio 4…

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9th September 2015 by

Chapter: A Short Introduction to Liberalism

Here is the first chapter of Kelly’s book on Liberalism.

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9th September 2015 by

Advanced Article: Friedrich Hayek and Liberalism

source Hayek’s Utilitarianism & Liberty Hayek’s utilitarian outlook is distinctive in that he explicitly repudiates any hedonistic conception of the content…

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9th September 2015 by

Extract 4: Friedrich Hayek

source Friedrich Hayek was an Austrian-born economist and philosopher, and a major critic of John Maynard Keynes. Hayek’s account of how…

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9th September 2015 by

Extract 3: Ayn Rand

source Ayn Rand was a Russian-born philosopher and best-selling novelist who fled the Bolshevik revolution to settle in America. She is…

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9th September 2015 by

Extract 2: Milton Friedman and the Chicago School (economic liberalism)

source Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic…

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9th September 2015 by

Extract 1: John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty

On Liberty 1. “The subject of this essay is…civil or social liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can…

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