Political traditions

Liberalism, conservatism, socialism, Marxism, feminism, ecologism, multiculturalism and postmodernism are traditions, not single doctrines — each contains internal debates. This chapter maps what unites each tradition, where it divides internally, and how it answers the same questions about the state, equality and change. The worked comparison of liberal and socialist responses to market inequality shows how to tell traditions apart in an examination answer.