Political Ideologies provides a broad-ranging introduction to both the classical and contemporary political ideologies. Adopting a global outlook, it introduces readers to ideologies' increasingly global reach and the different national versions of these ideologies. A political ideology is a set of ideas, beliefs, values, and options, exhibiting a recurring pattern, that competes deliberately as well as unintentionally over providing plans of action for public policy making in an attempt to justify, explain, contest, or change the social and political arrangements and processes of a political community. The concept of ideology is subject to partly incompatible conceptual interpretations. A political ideology is a coherent set of views on politics and the role of the government. 'Political ideologies' provides a broad-ranging introduction to both the classical and contemporary political ideologies.