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In political science, 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
Authoritarianism
General
Other
Opposition
Religious variants
Regional variants
African
Central African Republic
Congo
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Libya
South Africa
Sudan
Uganda
Zimbabwe
American
Asian
European
Communitarianism
General
Other
Regional variants
Kibbutz
Obshchina
Singapore
Zadruga
Communism
The Hammer and sickle symbol
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
Tanzania
Tunisia
American
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Cuba
Grenada
Peru
United States
Asian
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Cambodia
Khmer Rouge
Salvation Front
China
India
Keralan communism
Naxalism
Tripuran communism
West Bengali communism
Georgia
Indonesia
Iran
Israel
Japan
Kazakhstan
Korea
Kurdistan
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Mongolia
Nepal
Palestine
Pakistan
Philippines
Soviet Union
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
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
Mensheviks
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
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
Yugoslavia
Oceanian
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
Sudan
Uganda
American
Latin America
North America
United States
Black conservatism
Conservative coalition
Conservative democratism
Anti-abolitionism
Blue Dogs
Bourbon Democrat
Jacksonianism
Southern democratism
Federalism
McCarthyism
Nativism
New Right
Old Right
Republicanism
Conservative republicanism
Libertarian republicanism
Moderate republicanism
Main Street republicanism
Republican Main Street Partnership
Tuesday Group
Modern conservatism
Movement conservatism
Reaganism
Stalwarts
Tea Party movement
Trumpism
Asian
European
Template:Toryism
Ancient Rome
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Bonapartism
Gaullism
LePenism
Monarchism
Legitimism
Orléanism
Ultra-royalism
Nouvelle Droite
Revolutionary France
Germany
Bismarkianism
Conservative revolutionary movement
Monarchism
Neue Rechte
Prussianism
Reichsbürger movement
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Conservatism in Italy
Historical Right
Modern conservatism
Liberal conservatism
Sanfedismo
Luxembourg
Poland
Norway
Russia
Monarchism
Modern conservatism
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Oceanian
Australia
Fiji
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Tonga
Vanuatu
Corporatism
Template:Corporatism
General
Other
Religious variants
Regional variants
Western Europe
Austria
Belgium
France
Germany
Bismarkianism
Conservative revolutionary movement
Fascist corporatism
Prussian socialism
Ordoliberalism
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Portugal
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
Democracy
Symbol of Democracy(1)
Symbol of Democracy(2)
General
Other
Direct democracy movements
Pirate politics
Political internationals
Opposition
Religious variants
Christian democracy
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Political internationals
General
* Distributism
Other
Other
Regional variants
African
Asian
Bangladesh
China
India
Iran
Israel
Lebanon
Pakistan
Palestine
Rojava
Singapore
Vietnam
American
Chile
Chiapas
United States
European
Oceanian
Environmentalism
Political internationals
Bright green environmentalism
Deep green environmentalism
Light green environmentalism
Other
Opposition
Religious variants
Regional variants
African
American
Asian
Bangladesh
China
India
Israel
South Korea
Taiwan
European
Oceanian
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
Japan
Lithuania
Malaysia
Moldova
Netherlands
Norway
Partisan resistance movement (multinational)
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
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Costa Rica
Mexico
Peru
North America
Asian
East Asian
South Asian
West Asian
Arab fascism
Iran
Israel
Lebanon
Syria
Turkey
European
Albania
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Belarus
Croatia
Frankism
Ustasism
Neo-fascism
Neo-Nazism
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Estonia
France
Germany
Greece
Antisemitism
Nazism
Neo-fascism
Hungary
Italy
Classical fascism
Actual idealism
Fasci movement
Futurism
Mussolinism
Republican fascism
Revolutionary fascism
Sansepolcrismo
Nazism
Neo-fascism
Post-fascism
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Antisemitism
National radicalism
Portugal
Romania
Antisemitism
Nazism
Antonism
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Antisemitism in Spain
Francoism
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
Antisemitism
Banderism
Neo-Nazism
United Kingdom
Yugoslavia
Oceanian
Identity politics
Political internationals
Template:Youth rights sidebar
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
Black feminism
Hip-hop feminism
Womanism
Chicana feminism
Dalit feminism
French feminism
Indigenous feminism
Kurdish feminism
Post-colonial feminism
White feminism
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
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
LGBTQ social movements
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Gay liberation
Homonationalism
LGBT conservatism
LGBTQ pride
LGBTQ rights opposition
Pink capitalism
Queer anarchism
Queer radicalism
Queer ecology
Queer nationalism
Socialism and LGBTQ rights
Transfeminism
Men's movement
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Regional variants
Australia
India
Italy
United Kingdom
United States
Self-determination movements
African-American
Template:Black Power sidebar
African-American self-determination movement
Black anarchism
Black capitalism
Black feminism
Black power
Pan-Africanism
Indigenous peoples
First Nations self-determination movement
Greenlandic independence movement
Indigenous Australian self-determination movement
Indigenous self-determination movement
Māori self-determination movement
Native American self-determination movement
Pan-Indianism
Latin American
Chicanism
Hispanicism
Indigenism
Pan-Americanism
Pan-Hispanism
Separatist and supremacist movements
Ethnic
Black
Black nationalism
Black separatism
Black supremacism
Black Feminism
White
White nationalism
White separatism
White supremacism
White feminism
Regional variants
African
American
Latin America
North America
Canada
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
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
Gender
Religious variants
Student movements
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General
Regional variants
Liberalism
; Political internationals
Liberal International (liberalism)
Transnational Radical Party (radicalism )
General
Other
Opposition
Regional variants
African
Egypt
Nigeria
Senegal
South Africa
Tunisia
Zimbabwe
American
Template:Liberalism US
Template:Modern liberalism US
Latin America
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Cuba
Ecuador
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
North America
Canada
United States
Abolitionism
Anti-Federalism
Anti-Administration party
Democratic republicanism
Democratism
Liberal republicanism
Moderate republicanism
Radical republicanism
Modern liberalism
Classical liberalism
New Deal liberalism
Progressive movement
Wilsonianism
Asian
China
Hong Kong
India
Iran
Israel
Japan
Philippines
South Korea
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
European
Template:Liberalism UK
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
Monarchiens
Society of 1789
Germany
Greece
Hungary
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
Libertarianism
Political internationals
Left-libertarianism
Right-libertarianism
Other
Opposition
Religious variants
Regional variants
African
American
Template:Libertarianism US
Argentina
Canada
United States
United States
Asian
European
Oceanian
Nationalism
Political internationals
General
Other
Opposition
Religious variants
Regional variants
African
Template:Pan-African
Algeria
Berber
East Congo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Hutu Power
Madagascar
Nigeria
Somalia
South Africa
American
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
Costa Rica
Creole nationalism
Greenland
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Asian
Arab
Armenia
Assyria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Cambodia
China
Cantonese nationalism
East Turkistan
Taiwan
Taiwan independence movement
Tibet
India
Assam
Bengal
Dravidian nationalism
Indian independence movement
Kashmir
Nagaland
Punjab
Tripura
Iran
Iranian Islamonationalism
Israel
Japan
Karen
Korean
Kurdish
Kurdish Islamonationalism
Malaysia
Pakistan
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Turkey
Vietnam
European
Albania
Armenia
Austria
German nationalism in Austria
Belarus
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Estonia
France
Alsace
Brittany
Corsica
Gaullism
Occitania
Souverainism
Georgia
Germany
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
Extremist nationalism
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
Ukraine
United Kingdom
British unionism
Cornwall
England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Yugoslavia
Bosnia
Croatia
Serbia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Slovenia
Oceanian
Unification movements
Populism
Template:Populism sidebar
Political internationals
General
Left-wing populism
Right-wing populism
Other
Regional variants
African
Asian
Cyprus
Progressive Party of Working People
Solidarity Movement
Georgia
Alliance of Patriots of Georgia
India
Iran
Pakistan
Turkey
Justice and Development Party
Nationalist Movement Party
Millî Görüş
American
European
Oceanian
Progressivism
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Political internationals
General
Other
Opposition
Religious variants
Regional variants
Canada
South Korea
United Kingdom
United States
American System
Great Society
New Deal
New Freedom
New Frontier
Progressive democratism
Progressive Era
Whigs
Religio-political ideologies
Political internationals
General
Political atheism and agnosticism
Political Baháʼí Faith
Political Buddhism
Political Christianity
Template:Integralism
Political Confucianism
Political Hinduism
Political indigenous religions
Political Islam
Political Judaism
Political Neopaganism
Neopagan feminism
Romantic nationalism
Slavic Native Faith
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
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
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Oceanian
Australia
Melanesia
New Zealand
Socialism
Symbol of Socialism
Political internationals
General
Authoritarian
Libertarian
Other
Template:Labor
Opposition
Religious variants
Regional variants
African
Angola
Benin
Congo
Egypt
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guinea
Kenya
Libya
Madagascar
Mali
Mozambique
Senegal
Somalia
South Africa
Abahlali baseMjondolo
Trotskyism
Tanzania
Tunisia
Zanzibar
American
Template:Socialism US
Asian
European
Albania
Andorra
Bosnia, and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Byelarus
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Estonia
Commune of the Working People of Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Moldova
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Social Democratic Party
Russia
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Yugoslavia
Oceanian
Syndicalism
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Political internationals
General
Other
Opposition
Regional variants
Transhumanism
Political internationals
General
Other
Regional variants
See also
References
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