POLI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: List Of Political Parties In Canada, Populism, Human Nature
6 Sep 2016
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Ideology: what people think and believe about society, power, rights, etc. System of political ideas, values, and beliefs (usually developed for political action) Involves: evaluation of status quo (keep or change). A way of understanding reality: normative judgment: what should be going on, how do we get there. Earliest ideologies was seen in religion giving us a set of beliefs. Ideologies disagree in terms of: human nature. (humans naturally aggressive or peaceful?, individuals and society. Ideologies differ on many aspects: change or preservation of status quo (and how!, freedom or order, pluralism or orthodoxy. Not all dimensions equally important: individual differences person to person basis, politically activated differences. Where do we see this ideology: party policy platform, policy output, leaders, rank and file. Ideologies in canada: social tolerance, economic approach, provincial powers, populism. How and why do people have certain ideologies: individual background. Age, friends, family, gender etc: structural.
