1. # ? “Political Ideologies “ 9/17
1)Create a “T-Chart” and label one side Conservative and the other Liberal. Try to come up with difference in ideology for both sides.
2)What are political parties and why do people join them?

3. Unit 2 Political Participation
Political Ideologies
Unit 2
Political Participation

6. Political Party
Group of people who seek to control government through the winning of elections and holdings of public offices
Group of people, joined together on the basis of common principles, who seek to control government in order to affect certain public policies

7. Political Party Link between people and gov’t Why Political Parties?
Help organize gov’t
Create interest in gov’t
Recruit candidates and
campaign workers
4. Raise $

8. Two Major Political Parties
Republicans
Democrats

9. Conservative Republicans
Supports Status Quo (the existing state or condition)
Uphold traditional values
Pro-family
Anti-abortion
Religion
Self-Sufficiency
Stronger Military
Favor Free Market
Against “big government”

10. John McCain

11. Liberal Government very involved in social conditions
Democrats
Government very involved in social conditions
Favor and Support
“big government”
Welfare
Minorities
Poor
Social Injustices
Environment
Civil Liberties
Separation of Church and State

12. Obama-

13. Independent Moderate Radical
Not affiliated with any one political party
Moderate
Not extreme
Middle Ground, between left and right
Radical
Favor extreme changes
Both left and right

14. Libertarian- “More Freedom, Less Government, and Lower Taxes”
Largest Third Party
Neither Left or Right
Complete Laissez Faire
Total Individual Liberty
Social/ Political
Pro-drug legalization, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-home schooling, anti-gun control
Economic
Pro-free trade, anti-minimum wage, anti-income tax, no regulation of business

15.
Ron Paul:

16. Anarchist Anarchy = no government.
Radical Left
Anarchy = no government.
After a civil war in a country, when a government has been destroyed and rival groups are fighting to take its place
Anarchists are people who believe that government is a bad thing
Believe it stops people from organizing their own lives

17. Totalitarian/ Fascism
Radical Right
Government controls all aspects of life
Political and Cultural Expression is Suppressed
Centralized Control
People are forced to do what
the government tells them
may also be prevented from
leaving the country

18. Ideological Spectrum Socialists/Communist Reactionary Liberals
Moderates
Conservatives
Fascism
Anarchists

19. Refining the Ideological Spectrum
Liberal
Conservative
The Economic Spectrum
Economic Liberals favor broad government involvement in economic policymaking and regulation of business
Economic conservatives favor limited government involvement in economic policymaking and regulation of business

20. Refining the Ideological Spectrum
Liberal
Conservative
The Social/ Political Spectrum
Social and political liberals favor limited government regulation of individual behavior.
Social and political conservatives favor broad government regulation of individual behavior.

21. Ideology Grid Conservative Totalitarian Liberal Libertarian Economic
Social/ Political
Liberal
Libertarian
Economic

23. Political Satire
Daily Show
Deal or New Deal
Saturday Night Live
Gore