Political Ideology
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According to Plato's political philosophy as described in The Republic, in whom should political power be vested?
View answer and explanationHow did Aristotle view a democracy in his categorization of political regimes?
View answer and explanationWhat did Thomas Hobbes argue was the primary reason for individuals to embrace a social contract and create a powerful government?
View answer and explanationHow did John Locke's conception of natural laws differ from Thomas Hobbes's?
View answer and explanationWhat is the 'general will' according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy?
View answer and explanationIn what year was Hugo Chávez elected president of Venezuela on a platform rooted in socialist ideology?
View answer and explanationWhat is the core idea of John Stuart Mill's 'harm principle' as described in his work On Liberty?
View answer and explanationWhat was F. A. Hayek's primary argument in The Road to Serfdom regarding expanded government regulation of the economy?
View answer and explanationAccording to Karl Marx's prediction, a global revolution would eventually result in what condition?
View answer and explanationWhat is 'hegemony' according to the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci?
View answer and explanationWhat was the role of the 'vanguard' in Vladimir Lenin's adaptation of Marxist theory?
View answer and explanationFascism, which first emerged in Italy and Spain in the early 1920s, is an ideology that combines reverence for the state with which other elements?
View answer and explanationAccording to Maoism, a distinctive form of Marxist-Leninist ideology, who were considered the primary agents for ushering in communism in China?
View answer and explanationWhat does the ideology of democratic liberalism merge to form its predominant principles?
View answer and explanationThe core of the center-right ideology in a US context is described as 'political fusionism'. What two elements does this concept combine?
View answer and explanationWhat is the typical view of the center left regarding the role of the judiciary in interpreting a constitution?
View answer and explanationWhat is the core argument of multiculturalism, one of the earliest New Left movements?
View answer and explanationAccording to the text, when did Betty Friedan's influential book The Feminine Mystique, which marked the popular emergence of second-wave feminism, get published?
View answer and explanationWhat is the epistemological argument used by critical race and gender theorists, drawing on the work of Allison Jagger?
View answer and explanationWhat distinguishes contemporary democratic socialism from center-left ideology regarding the economy?
View answer and explanationWhat is cosmopolitanism, an idea associated with the ideology of globalism?
View answer and explanationThe New Right sees what it calls 'cultural Marxism' as a major danger. This idea is primarily based on the theory of which political philosopher?
View answer and explanationWhat is the concern of the New Right regarding what they term 'woke capitalists'?
View answer and explanationBetween which years did the authoritarian prime minister António Salazar rule Portugal, creating a state that resisted both fascism and liberalism?
View answer and explanationWhat is the core argument of Burkeanism as an alternative to political ideology?
View answer and explanationHow did Adam Smith apply John Locke's ideas to the realm of international trade?
View answer and explanationWhat is the purpose of Rousseau's 'civil religion'?
View answer and explanationBy the 1830s, the United States had adopted the position on voting rights that Benjamin Franklin had argued for earlier. What was this position?
View answer and explanationWhat did Marx and Engels condemn nationalism for?
View answer and explanationWhat does the Marxist concept 'dictatorship of the proletariat' refer to?
View answer and explanationDuring which period did Mao Zedong make urban, intellectual groups targets for persecution in the Cultural Revolution?
View answer and explanationWhat policy did Deng Xiaoping institute in China after Mao's death to achieve communist goals?
View answer and explanationWhy does democratic liberalism generally favor representative democracy over direct democracy?
View answer and explanationSocial conservatives in the United States often embrace originalism. What is this view?
View answer and explanationWhat is intersectionality, a concept emphasized in critical race and gender theory?
View answer and explanationWhat is the socialist argument regarding the material success of any individual?
View answer and explanationIn what year did Donald Trump's presidential victory showcase the rise of large elements of the New Right ideology?
View answer and explanationHow do Marxists and Maoists define 'ideology' in a way that distinguishes it from their own vision?
View answer and explanationWhat is political secularism, a view rejected by religious extremists?
View answer and explanationIn Aristotle's view, what was the best hope for a majority of citizens to rule with the goal of securing the public good?
View answer and explanationWhat did Locke believe was the sole purpose of the government created through the social contract?
View answer and explanationWhat ideology is described as a system of thought that combines elements of natural rights, limited government, and capitalism?
View answer and explanationWhat was the central focus of second-wave feminism, which emerged in the 1960s?
View answer and explanationWhat is structural racism, according to critical race theorists?
View answer and explanationWhat form of government does Indigenism usually argue for?
View answer and explanationAccording to the text, what is conservative populism?
View answer and explanationWhat is the key difference between third-wave feminism and second-wave feminism as described in the text?
View answer and explanationIn Aristotle's framework, what political regime is defined as rule by a few in service of their own advantage?
View answer and explanationWhich ideology sees a national group as endowed with a distinctive culture and ties based on shared blood, history, and soil?
View answer and explanationWhat is neoliberalism, as opposed by Chavismo in Venezuela?
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