IDEOLOGY
• Is a certain set of ethical ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class or large group that explains, how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order.
• A political ideology largely concerns itself with how to allocate power and to what ends it should be used.
• It is more or less a coherent set of ideas that direct or organize a specific action (Heywood 2013).
o It is a political belief system
o An action-oriented set of political ideas
o The ideas of the ruling class
o The world view of a particular social class or a group
o Political ideas that embody or articulate class or social interest
o Ideas that propagate false consciousness among the exploited or oppressed
o Ideas that situate the individual within a social context and generate a sense of collective belonging
o An official sanction set of ideas used to legitimate our political system or regime
o An all-embracing political doctrine that claims a monopoly of truth
o An abstract highly systematic set of political ideas
• It consists of belief and value systems, a discussion of existing power relationships, an exploration of how political change is achieved in line with these power relations, and an illustration of a desired future.
Political Ideology
• A political ideology is a coherent set of views on politics and the role of the government. Consistency over a wide range of issues is the hallmark of a political ideology.
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