Difference between revisions of "Political ideologies"

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Political Ideology Portal

Overview

This page is intended as a catalog or index of existing political ideologies.

Usage

Political ideology currently redirects here; it should eventually be a separate page discussing the concept rather than different examples.

Related Pages

Belief in a particular moral system is usually the basis for (or a strong component of) an individual's agreement with a particular political ideology.
The habit of assuming that all political ideologies can be simply evaluated as falling somewhere along a one-dimensional "left-right" axis is generally misleading and historically arbitrary. Other political ideological axes have been proposed, generally using two or more dimensions, and it seems likely that at least four dimensions will be necessary in order to avoid significant ideological conflation.

List

Notes

maybe these should go under ideologies or worldviews

mysticism: intuition important, observation unimportant
nihilism could be defined as a very low value assigned to human understanding (further implying that neither intuition nor reason has much value either)
postmodernism
romanticism

Links

Reference

Wikipedia (Ideologies of parties): a list of political ideologies, broken down by main ideological emphasis

News

Note: things are showing up in this list which shouldn't be there. I have to check the code and figure out what's going on. --Woozle 10:55, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

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-[[Category:Concepts]]{{seed}}The quantifying of all political ideologies as falling somewhere in a "left-right" spectrum is generally misleading and appears to arise largely from a short-lived circumstance of seating in the French National Assembly in the 18th century<sup>[http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm]</sup>. Other systems have been proposed, generally using two or more dimensions.
+{{portal/politics/ideology}}
-==Political Spectra==
+==Overview==
-* [[Wikipedia:Nolan chart|Nolan chart]]: [personal freedom] x [economic freedom]
+[[category:catalogs]]This page is intended as a catalog or index of existing [[political ideology|political ideologies]].
-* [[Wikipedia:Pournelle chart|Pournelle chart]]: [belief in reason] x [belief in a State]
+===Usage===
-==References==
+* [[Political ideology]] currently redirects here; it should eventually be a separate page discussing the concept rather than different examples.
-# [http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm The Pournelle Political Axes] (1986)
+==Related Pages==
-==Brainstorming==
+* Belief in a particular [[moral system]] is usually the basis for (or a strong component of) an individual's agreement with a particular [[political ideologies|political ideology]].
-[[Category:Brainstorming]]What other dimensions might be significant in measuring political ideology?
+* The habit of assuming that all [[political ideologies]] can be simply evaluated as falling somewhere along a one-dimensional [[left-right axis|"left-right" axis]] is generally misleading and historically arbitrary. Other [[political ideological axes]] have been proposed, generally using two or more dimensions, and it seems likely that at least four dimensions will be necessary in order to avoid significant [[ideological]] [[conflation]].
-* importance of <u>studying doctrine</u> ("doctrinality" or "doctrinaire") vs. <u>observation and analysis</u> ([[wikipedia:Rationalism|Rationalism]]) (Pournelle box only charts reason vs. irrationality - is "belief in an incorruptible doctrine" a form of irrationality? If so, is it the ''only'' form?)
-* preference for <u>superior-inferior (usually hierarchical)</u> power relationships, as opposed to <u>peer-peer</u> (when applied to governance, this translates to <u>authoritarianism</u> ([[Wikipedia:Authoritarianism|Authoritarianism]]) versus <u>rule of the people</u>)
-* belief that the human condition <u>can be improved</u> (however slowly) vs. the idea of a <u>golden past</u> to which we can only aspire to one day return (usually by following the rules laid out in some ancient doctrine; this tends to go together with doctrinality)
-* value of <u>intuition</u> vs. <u>reasoning/analysis</u>
-* value of human understanding, regardless of how it is arrived at (nihilism would be assigning low value to this)
-Some issues which seem important but which may already be covered by the above:
+==List==
-* <u>willingness to reopen discussion of ''existing'' solutions</u> (as opposed to just solving ''new'' problems), in different arenas (e.g. social, as in marriage laws; infrastructure, as in power generation - liberals don't want to reconsider nuclear as an option, for example, but conservatives aren't willing to consider that marriage might be redesigned either) &ndash; ''can this be expressed as a combination of any of the others? It seems a bit overspecific to be a fundamental dimension...''
+* [[collectivism]]
-* importance of <u>observable facts</u> versus <u>pure reasoning</u> ([[Wikipedia:Continental rationalism|Continental rationalism]])
+* [[conservatism]]
+** [[US conservatism]]
+* [[fascism]]
+* [[liberalism]]
+** [[US liberalism]]
+* [[libertarianism]]
+* [[republicanism]]
+===Notes===
+''maybe these should go under [[ideologies]] or [[worldviews]]''
+* [[mysticism]]: intuition important, observation unimportant
+* [[nihilism]] could be defined as a very low value assigned to '''human understanding''' (further implying that neither intuition nor reason has much value either)
+* [[postmodernism]]
+* [[romanticism]]
-Some sample uses of these axes:
+==Links==
-* '''Mysticism''': intuition important, observation unimportant ("Mysticism" can arguably be defined as the idea that intuition is always important and reasoning is always suspect)
+===Reference===
+* {{wikipedia|Ideologies of parties}} (Ideologies of parties): a list of political ideologies, broken down by main ideological emphasis
+===News===
+''Note: things are showing up in this list which shouldn't be there. I have to check the code and figure out what's going on. --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 10:55, 24 September 2009 (UTC)''
+{{links/news}}