Module 2 : Key Concepts

Lecture 3 : Ideology (Part 1)


Political ideologies are ways of understanding what our place in the world is from a political point of view. Political ideology explores seminal questions like:

•  How is power to be distributed and organized in a society?

•  How much power should a leader / government have?

Political ideologies have as their goal an exploration of what every ideology feels is the optimal way of organizing a society. Thus political ideologies are attempts to carve out the best way of organizing ourselves as a collective in which governance and economic policies are important.

A few political ideologies are: