POLSCI 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Identity Politics, Central Canada, Western Alienation In Canada
3 Dec 2015
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Ideologies: specific bundles of ideas about politics and the good life, such as liberalism, conservatism, and socialism. Ideologies help people explain political phenomena, they allow people to evaluate good and bad and they equip people with a program or agenda for political action. Poliitical culture: the sum total of political beliefs in a country. It includes the attitudes, beliefs, and values that underpin the political system: ideologies are not perfectly logical or consistent, ideologies can and do change over time, nobody adheres perfectly to a single ideology. This is especially true in canadian politics, where the different ideologies tend to represent overlapping sets of ideas rather than radically distinct worldviews. Liberal want to maximize liberty for individuals, while conservatives want to ensure order in the community. The theory of noblesse oblige, or the idea that privilege entails responsibility. Cleavages: the main political divisions in a country. Political scientists have been long concerned with a handful of enduring schisms in the.
