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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===
===Related===
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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.davidbrin.com/questionnaire.html An Informal Opinion Poll Regarding Certain "Fundamental Questions" of Politics, Ideology and Human Destiny]: certain of the questions in this poll suggest what may be fundamental dichotomies (or axes) in a multidimensional ideology-space
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==Related Pages==
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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]].
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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]].
  
==References==
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==List==
# [http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm The Pournelle Political Axes] (1986)
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* [[collectivism]]
==Brainstorming==
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* [[conservatism]]
[[Category:Brainstorming]]What other dimensions might be significant in measuring political ideology?
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** [[US conservatism]]
* 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?)
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* [[fascism]]
* 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>)
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* [[liberalism]]
* 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)
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** [[US liberalism]]
* value of <u>intuition</u> vs. <u>reasoning/analysis</u>
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* [[libertarianism]]
* value of human understanding, regardless of how it is arrived at (nihilism would be assigning low value to this)
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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]]
  
Some issues which seem important but which may already be covered by the above:
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==Links==
* <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...''
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===Reference===
* importance of <u>observable facts</u> versus <u>pure reasoning</u> ([[Wikipedia:Continental rationalism|Continental rationalism]])
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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===
Some sample uses of these axes:
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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)''
* '''Mysticism''': intuition important, observation unimportant ("Mysticism" can arguably be defined as the idea that intuition is always important and reasoning is always suspect)
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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)