Part I. The changing fortunes of liberal democracy. The coming of the welfare state / Michael Freeden
Politics and markets: Keynes and his critics / Wayne Parsons
The advent of the masses and the making of the modern theory of democracy / Richard Bellamy
Nationalism and imperialism / James Mayall
Fascism and racism / Stanley G. Payne
Conservatism / Noël O'Sullivan
Christian democracy / Mario Caciagli
Critics of totalitarianism / Jeffrey C. Isaac
The end of the welfare state? / Robert E. Goodin
Part II. Varieties of Marxism. The Second International: socialism and social democracy / Dick Geary
The Russian Revolution: an ideology in power / Neil Harding
Asian communism / David McLellan
Western Marxism / David McLellan
French Marxism - existentialism to structuralism / Sunil Khilnani
Part III. Science, modernism and politics.
Positivism: reactions and developments / Melissa Lane
Postmodernism: pathologies of modernity from Nietzsche to the post-structuralists / Peter Dews
Weber, Durkheim and the sociology of the modern state / Antonino Palumbo, Alan Scott
Freud and his followers / Paul Roazen
Modernism in art, literature and political theory / Walter L. Adamson
The new science of politics / James Farr
Utilitarianism and beyond: contemporary analytical political theory / David Miller, Richard Dagger
Part IV. New social movements and the politics of difference
Pacifism and pacificism / Martin Ceadal
Identity politics / James Tully
Green political theory / Terence Ball
Part V. Beyond Western political thought
Nonwestern political thought / Bhikhu Parekh
Islamic political thought / Salwa Ismail
Epilogue: The grand dichotomy of the twentieth century / Steven Lukes.
