Customer Reviews

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, Fifth Edition

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The authors make a noble effort to minimize bias and examine the various ideologies objectively. As a few of the negative reviews make clear, not everyone is satisfied with this book's objectivity. I would like to respectfully disagree and ask the reviewers to re-examine their own biases.

I am currently using this book in a Honors American Political Science course at Georgia State University. This book is very informative and does not add superfluous information like most textbooks do. However, there are some terms in the text that we as a class have found to be a bit contradictory; such as the term "individual conservative". This seems to be an oxymoron and my professor actually contacted Ball who just basically dodged the question...

This book is racist. It is written by two white un-cultured men who seem to think it is okay to discriminate against the muslim religion. There is even a chapter called Radical Islam. Really? Christians can be radical too - lets not forget about the Oklahoma City bombing. This book made me sick. It was awful. The authors are not intelligent, and this should have never been published.

THE book came in the alloted time predicted to show up and the book was in perfect condition. there was little to no highlighting in the book. i am very happy with the textbook.

Book arrived in perfect condition and words spelled right so there's no complaints from me :)

The book was in great condition, and the shipping was very fast. This is a great seller!

Product could have arrived quicker, however, much better prices than local book stores and the product seems new.

Comprehensive, detailed, provides full explanations of all political ideologies. If you have an interest in political ideologies, this is the book for you.

This is a superb textbook. I used it in teaching ideology in upper division and lower division classes. Students find it accessible. Yet the book has the nuance and sophistication that are rare for a textbook. I higly recommend this book not just to those who teach ideology or poltical philosophy, but to any political scientist or historian.

My 10th grade Humanities class is reading selections from the text of the first edition of this book. I've loved what I have read. Probably no other book explains Ideologies better than this book. I've learned about such things as facism, liberalism, and socialism easily.

This is a great book. I give it FIVE STARS!

PS Check out the reader version of this book that has selected readings from people like Locke, Marx, and Hitler, this book is excellent.