POL113H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Contract, Limited Government, Twill
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A process of systemaic relecion on the consituion and exercise of poliical authority. Studies concepts, principles and arguments that have been formulated in order to explain, criicize and improve poliical arrangements. Can help us see the bigger picture of poliics. Conception: more ideational content, blank parts filled. Concept = slavery, conception = opinion on slavery. Ideologies is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory policy. The set of beliefs and characteristics of a social group or individual: the science of ideas; the study of their origin and nature (archaic) A political ideology is a set of ideas, beliefs, opinions, and values that. Compete over providing and controlling plans for public policy. Do so with the aim of justifying, contesting or changing the social and political arrangements and processes of a political community. The transformation from an idea into an ideology takes a lot of work.
