Government and Politics Chapter 2 Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy

Chapter TWO
Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy
I. Ideologies
Ideology is a set of ideas that are related and that modify one another; that is, an organized set of ideas about something.
From the personal point of view, an ideology helps us to make sense reasonably easily and quickly of the varied political questions that come to our attention.
Publicly, in politics, we are typically concerned to convince others that a policy we favor is the right one.
Ideologies are developed and maintained because of their usefulness to individuals in responding to events and their utility in pub…