Table of Contents

1a. Introduction 1996 b. Introduction 1978 2. Friends of the Modern State 3. Pleas for Liberty 4. Neither State nor Individual: the defence of communal and group politics 5. The Pale of the Constitution: the idea of citizenship 6. Accommodation to the Modern State: political ideas in the second quarter of the twentieth century 7. Arrivals and Departures: political ideas in the third quarter of the twentieth century 8. The Death of Conservatism and the Dispersal of Liberalism 9. The Death of Socialism and the Rise of the Left 10. Definitions and Doormats - the rise of feminism 11. Conclusion Bibliography. Index

About the Author

Rodney Barker is a Senior Lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.