POLS 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Classical Liberalism, Capitalism, New Left
25 Aug 2016
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Dominance and decline chapter values and beliefs. Religion can be a source of abstract principles that have political relevance. Communal outlooks can matter to, and so can beliefs about the way that the political system operates. Party identifiers placed their own party farther to the right than those who identified with the other parties, and each party own identifiers typically placed their ideal party right of the center. Ogmundson: perhaps some respondents interpreted the term right to mean correct or honest or legitimate or in the right. Resolves around opposing views about the free enterprise system and the appropriate balance between the government and the market. Left: tends to be more sceptical of the working of the capitalist system, and this scepticism is reflected in enhanced support for redistribution and a greater willingness to reply on the state to provide a social safety net. Left: revolves around opposing views about traditional morality and so called family values.
