Freeden, M., L. T. Sargent, and M. Stears (eds) (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, Oxford University Press. An exhaustive ‘handbook’ on political ideologies.

Festenstein, M. and Kenny, M. (2005), Political Ideologies, Oxford University Press. This anthology combines introductions to the main ideologies with the use of extensive extracts from primary sources.

Freeden, M. (2003), Ideology: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press. An indispensable short introduction to the study of ideology

Schumaker, P. (2008) From Ideologies to Public Philosophies, Blackwell. This book surveys the major ideologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (though it only deals in passing with the ‘new’ ideologies), and explores the answers they provide to ‘the great issues of politics’ such as community, citizenship, authority and justice.

The leading academic journal for the study of political ideologies is Journal of Political Ideologies (Taylor & Francis) http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjpi20/current

“The Journal of Political Ideologies is dedicated to the analysis of political ideology in its theoretical and conceptual aspects, and to investigating the nature and roles of particular ideological manifestations and practices”. Check for online access through your institution’s library. You can search the journal archive here: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjpi20

Some useful politics websites / blogs. These do not focus specifically on ideology but you will find useful discussions of politics here:

LSE British Politics and Policy blog http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/

LSE American Politics and Policy http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/

Open Democracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/

British Political Speeches http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/index.htm - “an online archive of British political speech and a place for the discussion, analysis, and critical appreciation of political rhetoric”