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Party policies and ideas keywords
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- 1Political PartyA group of people organised for the purpose of winning government power
- 2LeftPolitical ideas that are based on generally optimistic views about human nature and favour social change, left wingers tends to support liberty, state intervention and equality
- 3RightPolitical ideas that tend to be pessimistic about human nature and oppose change, right wingers typically favour order and authority and oppose state intervention
- 4LiberalismAn ideology that is defined by a commitment to the individual, reflected in the doctrine of 'natural' or human rights
- 5ConservatismAn ideology that is defined by a 'desire to conserve', it has traditionally been suspicious of abstract principles or developed theories, preferring instead to p;ace its faith in tradition, experience and history
- 6SocialismAn ideology that covers beliefs ranging from revolutionary communism to reformist social democracy, the center idea being that people are social creatures, bond by a common humanity
- 7FactionalismA concept to describe groups of people formed around a leader who reject the status quo and actively work against established authority within a society
- 8Consensus politicsAn overlap of ideological positions between two or more parties, an agreement about fundamental policy goals that permit s disagreements on matters of detail or emphasis
- 9Adversary politicsA form of politics that is characterized by deep ideological conflicts between major parties, the parties offer rival ideological visions
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- A Level Politics (Political Parties) Flashcards on Party policies and ideas keywords, created by Phoebe Fletcher on 03/02/2016.
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