The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis

Juliette Faure, Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040741405
• Subtopic: Political Parties
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This handbook offers a key interdisciplinary reference to advance ideology analysis.

Expert contributors from the social sciences and humanities focus on the sources and construction of ideology and related processes of ideological transmission across time and space in political and social realms. Authors examine diverse forms of ideological activity, focusing on their interplay with institutions, organisations and cultural practices at macro, meso and micro levels. Chapters analyse vectors of ideological creation and transmission such as political parties, social movements, think tanks, organised groups and traditional and social media, as well as historical writing, literature and the visual arts. This volume demonstrates how a variety of complementary methods can aid our understanding of ideological creation, transmission and reception across macro, meso and micro fields.

The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis is an authoritative reference for students and scholars in political and social theory, political science, sociology and anthropology, cultural studies, literature, communications and history.

The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis is part of the mini-series 'Routledge Handbooks on Political Ideologies, Practices and Interpretations' edited by Michael Freeden.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Frontispiece
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Section I Theory and methods of analysis
• 1 The three traditions of ideological analysis and the levels-of-analysis problem
• 2 Ideology writ large: Macroscopic compass or flawed totality
• 3 Analysing the ideologies of radical groups
• 4 Tools and debates in computational studies of online circulation of ideology: The case of the French radical right
• Section II Historiography of ideological change
• 5 Liberalism and capitalist development: Outline for a comparative intellectual history
• 6 Plebeian internationalism: Building the “Universal Republic” in 19th-century social movements
• 7 Towards an environmental and contextualist history of anarchist ideology: Preventing the (over)greening of anarchism
• Section III Defining and identifying ideologies
• 8 Ideology, discourse, strategy: What exactly is populism?
• 9 Anti-racist ideology
• 10 Ideology, genealogy and the function of performative violence in antisemitism
• 11 The radical right and the ideologies of post-postmodern conservatism
• Section IV Institutions and networks as ideological vectors
• 12 The role of advocacy think tanks: The war of ideas through research
• 13 Political parties as vehicles of ideologies
• 14 News, ideology and climate change: “You cannot begrudge people for wanting to feel better”1
• 15 The International of Conservative Intellectuals: Transnational networks, illiberal inputs and ideological flexibility
• 16 Political elites, ideas and public policy: How ideologies and ideational transmission shape policy stability and change
• Section V Exploring places of latent ideology
• 17 Ideology in the workplace: A psychological perspective on the hyper-normalisation of neoliberal beliefs
• 18 Analysing ideology in visual messages
• 19 The political psychology of ideology: Examining the palliative effects of ideology in the public
• 20 Non-human ideology: Samuel Johnson and animal studies
• Section VI Technology and futurity
• 21 New and emerging technologies as the locus of ideology
• 22 Transhumanism as ideology
• 23 Science fiction and/as ideology
• Section VII Ideological development across the continents
• 24 Populism, ideology and politics in Latin America
• 25 Ideological engineering in the evolution of China’s “Common Values of All Mankind” in the era of Xi Jinping
• 26 A meso-level sociology of philosophy approach to modern Confucianism
• 27 The rise of Hindutva: Contemporary political ideology in India
• 28 Political elite discourses polarise attitudes toward immigration along ideological lines: A comparative longitudinal analysis of Europe in the 21st century1
• 29 Countering the myth of Russia’s “ideological vacuum”: Three alternative ways of doing ideology in post-Soviet times
• 30 The Christian Right in the United States: Mobilisation and ideology
• 31 Rethinking political corruption and ideology within African communalism
• Index