Political Ideology

A Political Ideology is a ideology of political beliefs.

• Context:
  • It can be held by a Political Ideologue.
  • It can be supported by a Political Theory.
  • It can be studied by a Political Scientist.
  • It can range from being a Single-Topic Political Ideology to being a General-Themed Political Ideology.
  • It can range from being a Conservative Political Ideology to being a Radical Political Ideology.
  • It can inform a Political Strategy (e.g. as postulated in a political doctrine).
  • It can be associated with a Political Movement.
  • It can be referenced by Political Doctrines.
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• Example(s):
  • Economic and Social Governance:
    • Liberalism, advocating individual rights and limited government.
    • Socialism, promoting social ownership and egalitarian distribution of resources.
    • Communist Ideology, aiming for a classless society and communal ownership of resources.
  • National and Cultural Identity:
    • Nationalism, prioritizing national interests and cultural identity.
    • Irredentism, advocating for the recovery of territory culturally or historically related.
    • Secessionism, promoting the separation from a larger entity to form a new independent state.
  • Gender and Environmental Rights:
    • Feminism, focusing on women's rights and gender equality.
    • Environmentalism, emphasizing the protection of the environment and sustainable development.
  • Power Dynamics and Governance Styles:
    • Authoritarian Ideology, emphasizing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
    • Political Conservatism, valuing tradition, stability, and continuity in society and government.
    • Political Anarchism, advocating for a stateless society and self-governance.
    • Accelerationism, advocating for rapidly advancing societal transformation.
  • Populism and Elitism:
    • Populism, appealing to the interests and conceptions of the general population.
    • Political Populism vs. Political Elitism, contrasting grassroots movements with governance by elites.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Economic Ideology.
  • a Religious Ideology.
• See: Political Party, Election Program, Ideology, Doctrine, Social Movement, Social Class, Power (Sociology).

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  • Political matters: Issues related to governance, public policy, and social organization.
  • Political beliefs: Opinions about political matters, such as government role or social issues.
  • Political actions: Activities aimed at influencing political outcomes, like voting or protests.
  • Political outcomes: Results of political actions, e.g., election results or policy changes.
  • Political ideologies: Systematic sets of political beliefs providing a framework for understanding politics, e.g., liberalism or socialism.
  • Political doctrines: Specific theories or principles within an ideology guiding action, e.g., Marxism within socialism.

2018

• (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy Retrieved:2018-2-15.
  • Political philosophy, or political theory, is the study of topics such as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a laws by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.

    In a vernacular sense, the term "political philosophy" often refers to a general view, or specific ethic, political belief or attitude, about politics, synonymous to the term “political ideology”.

    Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy. Political philosophy is also considered by some to be a sub-discipline of political science;however, the name generally attributed to this form of political enquiry is political theory, a discipline which has a closer methodology to the theoretical fields in the social sciences (like economic theory) than to philosophical argumentation (like that of moral philosophy or aesthetics).

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies Retrieved:2016-6-1.
  • This is a list of political ideologies. Many political parties base their political action and election program on an ideology. In social studies, a political ideology is a certain ethical set of ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class, and/or large group that explains how society should work, and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order. A political ideology largely concerns itself with how to allocate power and to what ends it should be used. Some parties follow a certain ideology very closely, while others may take broad inspiration from a group of related ideologies without specifically embracing any one of them. The popularity of an ideology is in part due to the influence of moral entrepreneurs, who sometimes act in their own interests.

    Political ideologies have two dimensions:

    1. Goals: How society should be organized.
    2. Methods: The most appropriate way to achieve this goal.
  • An ideology is a collection of ideas. Typically, each ideology contains certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of government (e.g. democracy, autocracy, etc.), and the best economic system (e.g. capitalism, socialism, etc.). Sometimes the same word is used to identify both an ideology and one of its main ideas. For instance, "socialism" may refer to an economic system, or it may refer to an ideology which supports that economic system.

    Political ideology is a term fraught with problems, having been called "the most elusive concept in the whole of social science"; however, ideologies tend to identify themselves by their position on the political spectrum (such as the left, the centre or the right), though this is very often controversial. Finally, ideologies can be distinguished from political strategies (e.g. populism) and from single issues that a party may be built around (e.g. opposition to European integration or the legalization of marijuana). There are several studies that show that political ideology is heritable within families.

    The following list attempts to divide the ideologies found in practical political life into a number of groups; each group contains ideologies that are related to each other. The headers refer to names of the best-known ideologies in each group. The names of the headers do not necessarily imply some hierarchical order or that one ideology evolved out of the other. They are merely noting the fact that the ideologies in question are practically, historically and ideologically related to each other. Note that one ideology can belong to several groups, and there is sometimes considerable overlap between related ideologies. Also, keep in mind that the meaning of a political label can differ between countries and that parties often subscribe to a combination of ideologies.

    The list is strictly alphabetical. Thus, placing one ideology before another does not imply that the first is more important or popular than the second.

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