List of political ideologies

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In social studies, a political ideology is a certain set of ethical ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class or large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order. A political ideology largely concerns itself with how to allocate power and to what ends it should be used. Some political parties follow a certain ideology very closely while others may take broad inspiration from a group of related ideologies without specifically embracing any one of them. An ideology's popularity is partly due to the influence of moral entrepreneurs, who sometimes act in their own interests. Political ideologies have two dimensions: (1) goals: how society should be organized; and (2) methods: the most appropriate way to achieve this goal.

An ideology is a collection of ideas. Typically, each ideology contains certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of government (e.g. autocracy or democracy) and the best economic system (e.g. capitalism or socialism). The same word is sometimes used to identify both an ideology and one of its main ideas. For instance, socialism may refer to an economic system, or it may refer to an ideology that supports that economic system. The same term may also refer to multiple ideologies, which is why political scientists try to find consensus definitions for these terms. For example, while the terms have been conflated at times, communism has come in common parlance and in academics to refer to Soviet-type regimes and Marxist–Leninist ideologies, whereas socialism has come to refer to a wider range of differing ideologies which are most often distinct from Marxism–Leninism.[1]

Political ideology is a term fraught with problems, having been called "the most elusive concept in the whole of social science".[2] While ideologies tend to identify themselves by their position on the political spectrum (such as the left, the centre or the right), they can be distinguished from political strategies (e.g. populism as it is commonly defined) and from single issues around which a party may be built (e.g. civil libertarianism and support or opposition to European integration), although either of these may or may not be central to a particular ideology. Several studies show that political ideology is heritable within families.[3][4][5][6][7]

The following list is strictly alphabetical and attempts to divide the ideologies found in practical political life into several groups, with each group containing ideologies that are related to each other. The headers refer to the names of the best-known ideologies in each group. The names of the headers do not necessarily imply some hierarchical order or that one ideology evolved out of the other. Instead, they are merely noting that the ideologies in question are practically, historically, and ideologically related to each other. As such, one ideology can belong to several groups and there is sometimes considerable overlap between related ideologies. The meaning of a political label can also differ between countries and political parties often subscribe to a combination of ideologies.


Anarchism

Anarchy symbol
Political internationals

Classical

Post-classical

Contemporary

Opposition

Religious variants

  • Buddhist anarchism
  • Christian anarchism
    • Catholic Worker Movement
    • Diggers
    • Tolstoyan movement
  • Hindu anarchism
  • Islamic anarchism
  • Jewish anarchism
    • Orthodox Jewish anarchism

Regional variants

African

  • Algeria
  • Egypt
  • Morocco
  • Nigeria
  • South Africa
  • Tunisia

American

  • Latin America
    • Argentina
    • Bolivia
    • Brazil
    • Chile
    • Colombia
    • Cuba
    • Ecuador
    • French Guiana
    • Mexico
    • Puerto Rico
    • Venezuela
  • North America
    • Canada
    • United States
      • Individualist anarchism

Asian

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • China
    • Hong Kong
  • East Timor
  • Egypt
  • Georgia
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Malaysia
  • Mongolia
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • Syria
  • Turkey
  • Vietnam

European

  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Monaco
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
    • Narodnism
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom

Oceanian

  • Australia
  • New Zealand

Authoritarianism

General

Other

Opposition

Religious variants

Regional variants

African

  • Central African Republic
  • Congo
  • Egypt
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Libya
  • South Africa
  • Sudan
  • Uganda
  • Zimbabwe

American

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Cuba
  • Dominican Republic
  • Guatemala
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • United States
  • Venezuela

Asian

European

Communitarianism

General

Other

Regional variants

  • Kibbutz
  • Obshchina
  • Singapore
  • Zadruga

Communism

Political internationals

Authoritarian

Leninism

Marxism–Leninism

Libertarian

An Anarchist A laid over a Communist Hammer and sickle.

Marxism

Other

Opposition

Religious variants

Regional variants

African

  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Congo
  • Egypt
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Mozambique
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
    • Trotskyism
  • Tanzania
  • Tunisia

American

  • Canada
    • Quebec
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Grenada
  • Peru
    • Shining Path
  • United States

Asian

  • Afghanistan
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Cambodia
    • Khmer Rouge
    • Salvation Front
  • China
  • India
    • Bengali communism
    • Keralan communism
    • Naxalism
    • Tripuran communism
  • Georgia
  • Indonesia
    • Sumatra
  • Iran
  • Israel
  • Japan
    • New Left
  • Kazakhstan
  • Korea
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
  • Kurdistan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Mongolia
  • Nepal
  • Palestine
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Soviet Union
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vietnam
    • Trotskyism
  • Yemen

European

  • Albania
  • Bosnia, and Herzegovina
  • Bulgaria
  • Belarus
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czechoslovakia
    • Bohemia and Moravia
    • Slovakia
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
    • East Germany
    • West Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Macedonia
  • Moldova
  • Montenegro
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
    • Bolshevism
      • Bolsheviks
        • Centre
        • Left Opposition
          • Left communism
          • Group of Democratic Centralism
          • Left–Right Bloc
          • Trotskyism
          • United Opposition
          • Workers' Opposition
            • Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party
            • Workers' Truth
        • Old Bolsheviks
          • Recallists
          • Ultimatists
        • Right Opposition
          • Anti-Party Group
          • Bukharinism
          • Noginism
          • Rykovism
          • Tomskyism
          • Gang of Eight
          • Left–Right Bloc
          • Soyuz
          • Union of Marxist–Leninists
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
    • Trotskyism
      • Neo-Trotskyism
  • Yugoslavia

Oceanian

  • Australia
  • New Zealand

Conservatism

Political internationals
  • International Democrat Union (conservatism)
  • International Monarchist League (monarchism)

General

Reactionary

Opposition

Religious variants

Regional variants

African

  • Egypt
  • Gabon
  • Ghana
  • Ivory Coast
  • Kenya
  • Liberia
  • Malawi
  • Morocco
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • South Africa
    • Apartheid
  • Sudan
  • Uganda

American

United States

Asian

  • China
  • Hong Kong
    • Localism
    • Nativism
  • India
    • Modern conservatism
      • Modrism
  • Japan
    • Abeism
    • Monarchism
    • Neoconservatism
  • Pakistan
    • Nativism
  • Philippines
  • South Korea
    • Modern conservatism
  • Taiwan
    • Nativism
  • Turkey

European

Oceanian

  • Australia
  • Fiji
  • New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Samoa
  • Tonga
  • Vanuatu

Corporatism

General

Other

Religious variants

Regional variants

Western Europe

Democracy

General

Other

Direct democracy movements

Pirate politics

Pirate politics
IdeologyAnti-corruption
Civil libertarianism
Civil rights
Direct democracy
E-democracy
Participatory democracy
Social liberalism
Political internationals

Opposition

Religious variants

Christian democracy

Political internationals
  • Centrist Democrat International (Christian democracy)
  • Christian Democrat Organization of America (Christian democracy)
General
Other

Other

Regional variants

African

  • Egypt
  • Morocco

Asian

  • Bangladesh
  • China
    • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Iran
  • Israel
  • Lebanon
  • Pakistan
  • Palestine
  • Rojava
  • Singapore
  • Vietnam

American

European

Oceanian

  • Australia

Environmentalism

Political internationals

Bright green environmentalism

Deep green environmentalism

Light green environmentalism

Other

Opposition

Religious variants

Regional variants

African

  • South Africa

American

  • United States

Asian

  • Bangladesh
  • China
  • India
  • Israel
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan

European

  • Switzerland

Oceanian

  • Australia
  • New Zealand

Fascism

Template:Neo-fascism

Political internationals
  • World Union of National Socialists (Nazism)

General

Other

Opposition

By country

  • During and before World War II
    • Albania
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Bulgaria
    • Burma
    • China
    • Czech Republic
    • Denmark
    • France
      • Francs-Tireurs et Partisans
    • Germany
    • Greece
    • Hungary
    • Italy
      • Arditi del Popolo
    • Japan
    • Lithuania
    • Malaysia
    • Moldova
    • Netherlands
    • Norway
    • Partisan resistance movement (multinational)
      • Jewish partisans
    • Philippines
    • Poland
      • Anti-Fascist Bloc
      • Jewish Combat Organization
    • Portugal
    • Slovakia
    • Soviet Union
    • Spain
    • Thailand
    • Yugoslavia
  • Post-World War II
    • Austria
    • Burma
    • Germany
    • Sweden
    • United Kingdom
      • Anti-Fascist Action
      • Anti-Nazi League
      • Movement for Justice
      • Red Action
      • Squadism
      • Unite Against Fascism
    • United States
      • Anti-Racist Action
      • By Any Means Necessary
      • Redneck Revolt
      • Refuse Fascism
      • Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice

Religious variants

Regional variants

African

  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
    • Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
    • Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging
  • Togo
  • Zaire

American

  • Latin America
  • North America
    • Canada
      • Nazism
        • Neo-Nazism
    • United States

Asian

European

Oceanian

Identity politics

Political internationals

Feminism

General

Opposition

Chronological variants

  • Proto-feminism
  • First-wave feminism
  • Second-wave feminism
  • Third-wave feminism
  • Fourth-wave feminism
  • Post-feminism

Ethnic and social variants

Religious variants

Regional variants

African
  • Congo
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Mali
  • Nigeria
  • South Africa
American
  • Latin America
    • Argentina
    • Brazil
    • Chile
    • Haiti
    • Honduras
    • Mexico
    • Paraguay
    • Trinidad and Tobago
  • North America
    • Canada
    • United States
Asian
  • Bangladesh
  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Lebanon
  • Malaysia
  • Nepal
  • Northern Cyprus
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • South Korea
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Turkey
  • Vietnam
European
  • Albania
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Russia
  • Sweden
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
Oceanian
  • Australia
  • New Zealand

LGBT social movements

Men's movement

Regional variants

  • Australia
  • India
  • Italy
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Self-determination movements

African-American

  • African-American self-determination movement
  • Black anarchism
  • Black capitalism
  • Black feminism
    • Womanism
      • Africana womanism
  • Black power
  • Pan-Africanism

Indigenous peoples

  • Australian Aborigines self-determination movement
  • First Nations self-determination movement
  • Greenlandic independence movement
  • Indigenous self-determination movement
  • Māori self-determination movement
  • Native American self-determination movement
    • American Indian Movement
  • Pan-Indianism

Latin American

  • Chicanism
    • Chicano movement
  • Hispanicism
  • Indigenism
    • Mexico
    • Peru
  • Pan-Americanism
  • Pan-Hispanism

Separatist and supremacist movements

Ethnic

Black
  • Black nationalism
  • Black separatism
  • Black supremacism
White
  • Alt-right movement
  • White nationalism
  • White separatism
  • White supremacism
Regional variants
African
  • South Africa
American
  • Latin America
    • Racial segregationism
  • North America
    • Canada
      • Racial segregationism
        • Greater Vancouver
    • United States
      • Racial segregationism
        • Atlanta segregationism
        • Auto-segregationism
        • Church segregationism
        • Public house segregationism
        • Residential segregationism
        • School segregationism
          • Academic segregationism
          • Black school segregationism
        • United States Armed Forces
      • White nationalism
      • White supremacism
Asian
  • Pakistan
European
  • Belgium
  • Bosnia, and Herzegovina
  • Georgia
    • Separatism in Chechnya
    • Separatism in Dagestan
    • Separatism in Tatarstan
    • Separatism in Ural
  • Serbia
  • Spain
    • Basque separatism
    • Catalan separatism
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
Oceania
  • Australia
    • Tasmania

Gender

Religious variants

Student movements

General

Regional variants

Liberalism

Political internationals

General

Other

Opposition

Regional variants

African

  • Egypt
  • Nigeria
  • Senegal
  • South Africa
  • Tunisia
  • Zimbabwe

American

  • Latin America
    • Bolivia
    • Brazil
    • Chile
    • Colombia
    • Cuba
    • Ecuador
    • Honduras
    • Mexico
    • Nicaragua
    • Panama
    • Paraguay
    • Peru
    • Puerto Rico
    • Uruguay
    • Venezuela
  • North America
    • Canada
    • United States
      • Abolitionism
      • Anti-Federalism
      • Democratism
        • New democratism
          • Clintonism
      • Liberal republicanism
        • Moderate republicanism
        • Radical republicanism
      • Modern liberalism
        • Classical liberalism
        • New Deal liberalism
          • New Deal coalition
        • Progressive movement
        • Wilsonianism

Asian

  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Iran
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Philippines
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Turkey

European

  • Albania
  • Armenia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech lands
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
    • Abolitionism
      • Society of the Friends of the Blacks
    • Republican Left
    • Revolutionary France
      • Historical Left
        • Jacobins
          • Cordeliers
          • Dantonists
          • Girondins
          • Hébertists
          • Montagnards
      • Modérantisme
        • Feuillants Club
        • Maraisards
          • Thermidorians
        • Monarchiens
        • Society of 1789
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Italy
    • Historical Left
    • Historical Right
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macedonia
  • Moldova
  • Montenegro
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Serbia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom

Oceanian

  • Australia
  • New Zealand

Libertarianism

Political internationals

Left-libertarianism

Right-libertarianism

Other

Opposition

Religious variants

Regional variants

African

  • South Africa
    • Anarchism

American

  • Canada
    • Anarchism
  • United States
United States

Asian

  • Hong Kong

European

Oceanian

  • Australia
    • Anarchism
      • Anarcho-technocracy

Nationalism

Political internationals

General

Other

Opposition

Religious variants

Regional variants

African

  • Algeria
  • Berber
  • East Congo
    • Lumumbism
  • Egypt
    • Pharaonism
      • Coptic nationalism
        • Coptic identity
  • Ethiopia
  • Hutu Power
  • Madagascar
  • Nigeria
    • Igbo nationalism
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
    • Afrikaners

American

Asian

* Arab

European

  • Albania
    • Kosovo
  • Armenia
  • Austria
    • German nationalism in Austria
  • Belarus
  • Bulgaria
  • Czechoslovakia
    • Czech Republic
    • Slovakia
  • Estonia
  • France
    • Alsace
    • Brittany
    • Corsica
    • Gaullism
    • Occitania
    • Souverainism
  • Georgia
  • Germany
    • Bavaria
    • Prussia
    • New Nationalism
    • Reichsbürger movement
  • Golus nationalism
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
    • Irish republicanism
    • Ulster unionism
  • Italy
    • Lombardy
    • Padania
    • Sardinia
    • Sicily
    • Venetian
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Low Countries
  • Moldova
  • Poland
    • National Democracy
    • Polish Messianism
    • Silesia
    • Zadrugism
    • Szeklerland
  • Russia
    • Eurasianism
      • Duginism
        • Neo-Eurasianism
    • Extremist nationalism
      • Black Hundreds
    • Nashism
    • Bulgarism
    • Chechnya
    • Circassia
    • Karelia
  • Nordic countries
    • Faroe Islands
    • Finland
      • Fennoman movement
      • Svecoman movement
    • Greenland
    • Iceland
    • Norway
    • Sápmi
  • Spain
    • Basque
    • Canary Islands
    • Catalonia
    • Galicia
    • Valencia
      • Blaverism
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
    • British unionism
    • Cornwall
    • England
    • Northern Ireland
    • Scotland
    • Wales
  • Yugoslavia
    • Bosnia
    • Croatia
      • Dalmatia
        • Istria
    • Serbia
    • Macedonia
    • Montenegro
    • Slovenia

Oceanian

  • Australia
  • New Zealand
    • Māori
    • South Island

Unification movements

Populism

Political internationals

General

  • Conservative populism
  • Economic populism
  • Liberal populism
  • Reactionary populism
  • Social populism
  • Socialist populism
  • Techno-populism

Left-wing populism

Right-wing populism

Other

Regional variants

African

Asian

American

European

Oceanian

Progressivism

Political internationals

General

Other

Opposition

Religious variants

Regional variants

Religio-political ideologies

Political internationals
  • Centrist Democrat International (Christian democracy)
  • Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamism)
  • Humanist International (humanism)
  • Muslim Brotherhood (Islamism)

General

Political atheism and agnosticism

Political Baháʼí Faith

Political Buddhism

Political Christianity

Political Confucianism

Political Hinduism

Political indigenous religions

  • Maori environmentalism

Political Islam

Political Judaism

Political Neopaganism

  • Neopagan feminism
    • Reclaiming
  • Romantic nationalism
    • Odalism
  • Slavic Native Faith
    • Praskozorje
    • Peterburgian Vedism
    • Ynglism
    • Zadrugism

Political Shinto

Political Sikhism

  • Khalistan movement
  • Sikh feminism

Political Taoism

Political Zoroastrianism

Satirical and anti-politics

General

  • Abstentionism
  • Anti-Centrism
  • Apoliticism

Other

Religious variants

  • Political quietism

Regional variants

  • Australia
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Faroe Island
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Iran
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Malta
  • New Zealand
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Serbia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Social democracy

Political internationals

General

Other

Opposition

Regional variants

African

American

Asian

European

  • Andorra
  • Bulgaria
  • Cyprus
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Moldova
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Serbia
  • Slovakia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
    • England
      • New Labourism
        • Blairism
          • Blatcherism
        • Brownism
        • Gaitskellism
          • Butskellism
          • Labour revisionism
            • Third Way
    • Northern Ireland
    • Scotland
    • Wales

Oceanian

  • Australia
  • Melanesia
  • New Zealand

Socialism

Political internationals

General

Authoritarian

Libertarian

Other

Opposition

Religious variants

Regional variants

African

  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Congo
  • Egypt
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Kenya
    • Kenya People's Union
  • Libya
  • Madagascar
  • Mali
  • Mozambique
  • Senegal
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
    • Abahlali baseMjondolo
    • Trotskyism
  • Tanzania
  • Tunisia
  • Zanzibar

American

Asian

European

Oceanian

Syndicalism

Political internationals

General

Other

Opposition

  • Anti-unionism

Regional variants

Transhumanism

Political internationals

General

Other

Regional variants

  • United States

See also

References

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