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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.
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==Political Spectra==
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==Overview==
* [[Wikipedia:Nolan chart|Nolan chart]]: [personal freedom] x [economic freedom]
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[[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]
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===Usage===
==References==
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* [[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)
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==Related Pages==
==Brainstorming==
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* 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?
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* 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]].
* Willingness to reopen discussion of ''existing'' solutions (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)
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==List==
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* [[collectivism]]
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* [[conservatism]]
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** [[US conservatism]]
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* [[fascism]]
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* [[liberalism]]
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** [[US liberalism]]
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* [[libertarianism]]
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* [[republicanism]]
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===Notes===
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''maybe these should go under [[ideologies]] or [[worldviews]]''
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* [[mysticism]]: intuition important, observation unimportant
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* [[nihilism]] could be defined as a very low value assigned to '''human understanding''' (further implying that neither intuition nor reason has much value either)
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* [[postmodernism]]
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* [[romanticism]]
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==Links==
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===Reference===
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* {{wikipedia|Ideologies of parties}} (Ideologies of parties): a list of political ideologies, broken down by main ideological emphasis
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===News===
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''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)''
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Latest revision as of 10:55, 24 September 2009

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

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)