POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Free Trade, Comparative Advantage, Democratic Socialism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Ideologies either want to change something or keep things the way there are: working towards a goal. Ideologies are a set of ideas and belief that which make clear what is valued and what is not. What must be maintained and must be changed. And what shapes the attitude that share that ideologies. If you economically and systematically explain it, you will then consider that to be an ideology. Identifies the problem: the problem of poverty (as a socialist). Someone who has a conservative ideology would not focus on poverty as an issue. Tends to compare ideologies in terms of their features and assumptions: left wing , centre , right wing, l communist. Government controls and owns everything (from businesses to housing). Try to create new types of human beings: democratic socialism (l/c): tax the wealthy, you have elections, you have parties.