1. Liberalism, Conservativism, Anarchism
Ideologies 1
Liberalism, Conservativism, Anarchism

2. Why are they important?
State and governmental authority and legitimacy rest on a network of beliefs about human nature, society and the purpose of government.
Mixture of moral beliefs and experiences.

3. Ideology
Is a system of values and beliefs that is accepted as fact or truth by some group.
It is composed of attitudes towards the various institutions and processes of a society
It provides the believer with a picture of the world as it is and as it should be.
It organizes the tremendous complexity of the world into something fairly simple and understandable.

4. An Ideal Type Formulation of a general abstract concept
Hypothetical construction formed from real phenomena which have explanatory potential.
A series of defining characteristics that are observable in the real world and exaggerated to form a coherent intellectual construction.

5. Isms the Big Boys
Ideology typology