4th Edition Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics,

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4th Edition Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning A. J. Veal COMPLEMENTARY TEACHING MATERIALS CABI TOURISM TEXTS CHAPTER 2 Political Ideologies Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, 4th Edition The nature of ideology Feminism Social democracy, 3rd Way, communitarian Introduction Liberalism/neo-liberalism, libertarianism Marxism Parties Leisure, sport and tourism Democratic socialism Principles Environmentalism Theocracy Conservatism Anti-globalism Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, 4th edition, Veal, 2017, CABI Tourism Texts The nature of ideology Ideology: ‘A system of ideas concerning phenomena, especially those of social life; the manner of thinking of a class or an individual’ (Shorter OED) Internally consistent sets of ideas about how society should be run N.B. Sometimes negative connotations Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, 4th edition, Veal, 2017, CABI Tourism Texts Relevance? Understanding our place in history Pre-modern societies: spiritual values, goals and regulation hereditary class and status systems aristocracy and monarchy + theocracy Modern societies: 18th century onwards humanitarian values and ideals human progress towards a better society political ideologies (socialism, liberalism etc.) =‘grand narratives’ Postmodern societies: demise of ‘grand narratives’ N.B. collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union etc. loss of confidence in ideology by ‘the left’ in the West Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, 4th edition, Veal, 2017, CABI Tourism Texts Relevance 2: current politics Current western politics: parties need to capture the ‘floating voter’ movement to the ‘centre’ policies guided by opinion polls rather than ideology Current political discourse still uses ideological terms: references to ‘left’, ‘right’, ‘socialism’, ‘neo-liberalism’ etc. Anti-globalization, rise of populism Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, 4th edition, Veal, 2017, CABI Tourism Texts Political spectrum (Fig. 2.1) Marxism Democratic socialism Social democracy/ Third Way Conservatism Anarchism Neo-liberalism Fascism LEFT RIGHT Feminism Radical Reformist Environmentalism Radical Reformist Anti-globalism Populism  Theocracy Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, 4th edition, Veal, 2017, CABI Tourism Texts UK: parties, governments, ideologies (Table 2.1) Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, 4th edition, Veal, 2017, CABI Tourism Texts Australia: parties, governments, ideologies (Table 2.1 cont’d) Leisure, Sport and Tourism, Politics, Policy and Planning, 4th edition, Veal, 2017, CABI Tourism Texts Conservatism Origins: – 19th century landed/upper class Principles: – stability and tradition rather than change – acceptance of inequality as natural – respect for ‘traditional’ institutions/values (e.g. monarchy, family) – pragmatic re. role of government – support