: a systematic body of concepts

especially about human life or

culture
: a manner or the content of
thinking characteristic of an
individual, group, or culture
 : the integrated assertions, theories
and aims that constitute a socio-
political program
: is a more or less coherent set of ideas that
provides the basis for organized political action,
whether this is intended to preserve, modify or
overthrow the existing system of power.
 is a set of related beliefs about
political theory and policy held by
an individual, group of individuals or
a particular social class
 political ideologies form the basis of how they
view the world around them and the proper role
of government in the world.
 offer an account of the existing
order, usually in the form of a
‘world-view’,

 advance a model of a desired

future, a vision of the ‘good society’,
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