Politics And Governance Summative 2

Question 1

Origin of political ideology

Answer 1

The need for a political transformation during the industrial revolution, when people realized that they can take active steps in improving their government, and the need to adjust the law to the economic and social changes of the time.

Question 2

Who proposed political ideologies as a new science of ideas

Answer 2

Antione de Tracy

Question 3

The two aspects of Antione de Tracy’s definition of a political ideology

Answer 3

Must be materialist, based on the environment/situation, and social and political improvement is the main goal

Question 4

What was Marx and Engel’s opposition of de Tracy’s definition

Answer 4

They stated that political ideologies are a fabrication created by the ruling class to justify their position in society and political ideologies would always reflect the interests of the ruling class

Question 5

What did the cold war Liberalists say on political ideologies

Answer 5

Political ideologies are closed systems of thought claiming to have monopoly over the truth.

Question 6

3 ways in which to describe political ideologies in a social scientific view

Answer 6

Offers an account of the existing world order, provides a model for a desired future, and outlines how political change can be brough

Question 7

What was Daniel Bell’s proposition on political ideologies

Answer 7

Political ideologies are dead and that the stock of ideas has been exhausted. Ideological questions are now irrelevant due to parties now competing over power

Question 8

What is Francis Fukuyama’s insight on political ideologies

Answer 8

“The end of history” meant that liberal democracy has triumphed over all ideologies and this triumph is final