PSCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Social Liberalism, Limited Government, Neoliberalism
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Ideology in world politics is the politics beyond the state/institutions. Structural ideology is the dissimulation of real circumstances. Religion is the opium of the people according to marx. Religion masks the real circumstances of society by suggesting of our sources of happiness and misery comes from a high power. Instrumental ideology is the articulation of ideas to pursue a goal. The ruling class formulates ideas to expand and maintain power. Ideology is defined as a system of ideas about existing order, visiting for future order, and how to move from to the latter. The key features of ideology are porous boundaries, action-oriented, rationalizing/universalizing, legitimizing, and naturalizing. Liberalism has origins in social contract theory (hobbes, and locke), and political economy (smith). Main variants are classical liberalism, social liberalism, and neo liberalism. Main tenets/commitments are (negative) liberty (freedom from ), equality (before the law; of opportunity), individualism (incl. capacity for rational choices), and tolerance.