POLI 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Liberal Democracy, Classical Liberalism, Social Democracy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 200
• Professor: Manuel Balan

Document Summary

Ideologies are often associated with social movements and political parties: the development of political ideologies is associated with the ideas of the european. Ideas related to particular ideologies are often used in political like to mobilize support for particular causes, movements, parties, policies, and governments. In this respect, some political ideologies can resemble fundamentalist religions. Ideological thinking can be simplistic and ideological adherents may provide distorted depictions of realty to fit their mental model of the world. Ideologies have also been used to justify the unjustifiable: the leading or dominant ideolog(cid:455) i(cid:374) a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455) (cid:449)ill ofte(cid:374) see(cid:373) to (cid:271)e (cid:862)common se(cid:374)se(cid:863) Ideologies provide us with different ideas of common good and how it may be achieved. Individuals able to act and think according to reason. Liberalism: the ideology of liberalism emphasized the desirability of a high level of individual freedom.