Political Ideology Index
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Political ideology — coherent systems of ideas about how a polity should be organised, justified, and conducted — is a long-running and universal feature of human political life. The subdomain covers political ideology as a research domain across every era and civilisation: the divine-kingship ideologies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the early Mediterranean; classical Greek and Roman political theory (Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Polybius) and the long careers of republicanism and mixed-constitution thought; Han Confucian and Legalist ideological synthesis and the imperial-bureaucratic worldview that shaped two millennia of East Asian governance; the Mauryan and Gupta dharmic kingship traditions; Islamic political thought from al-Farabi and al-Mawardi through Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Taymiyya, and the modern Islamist canon; medieval European Christian political theology (Augustine, Aquinas, the two-swords doctrine, conciliarism); Renaissance and early-modern civic humanism, reason of state, and absolutist theory; the Enlightenment ideological wave (Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Smith) that the Atlantic Revolutions weaponised; nineteenth-century liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism, and nationalism; twentieth-century communism, fascism, and decolonial nationalism; and contemporary populism, neoliberalism, post-liberalism, and ecological politics. Notes treat ideologies on their own terms (key thinkers, core claims, internal debates), their institutional embodiments, and the comparative question of why some ideas travel and others stall. The Atlantic Revolutionary ideologies the current vault focus visits (Jacobinism, loyalism, republicanism) are one chapter of this much longer history. Adjacent to MOC_Politics_Governance, MOC_Religion_Church, MOC_Culture_Society, and MOC_Era_Context.
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Roadmap
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Methodology
- What Is a Political Ideology — Skinner, Pocock, and the Cambridge School
- Conceptual History — Begriffsgeschichte, Koselleck, and the History of Political Language
Ancient
- Mesopotamian and Egyptian Divine Kingship as Political Theology
- Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics — The Founding Texts of Political Theory
- Roman Republican Ideology — Libertas, Res Publica, Cicero’s Synthesis
- Confucian and Legalist Political Thought — Han Synthesis and Its Long Career
- Mauryan Dharmic Kingship — Ashoka, the Arthashastra, and Indian Imperial Ideology
Medieval
- Augustine and Christian Political Theology — Two Cities and the Just War
- Aquinas and Scholastic Political Thought — Natural Law and Political Order
- Al-Farabi and al-Mawardi — The Virtuous City and Islamic Political Theory
- Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah — Sociology of Political Solidarity
- Conciliarism, Papal Monarchy, and the Late-Medieval Constitutional Argument
Early Modern
- Renaissance Civic Humanism — Bruni, Machiavelli, and Republican Revival
- Reason of State — Botero, Hobbes, and the Logic of Sovereignty
- Absolutism in Theory — Bodin, Bossuet, Filmer, and Their Critics
- Locke, Republicanism, and the Glorious Revolution
- Enlightenment Political Thought — Montesquieu, Rousseau, the Federalist
Age of Sail (current vault focus)
- Jacobinism and the Royal Navy — Radical Politics Among Sailors 1795-1797
- British Loyalism — Church-and-King Ideology and Its Naval Expressions
- Napoleon’s Imperial Ideology and the Transformation of French Naval Culture
- Irish Republicanism and the United Irishmen — Threat from Within the Fleet
- The Rights of Man at Sea — Thomas Paine’s Influence on Mutinous Sailors
Modern
- Nineteenth-Century Liberalism — Mill, Constant, and the Liberal Canon
- Conservatism — Burke, de Maistre, and the Counter-Revolutionary Tradition
- Marx, Engels, and the Long Career of Socialist Thought
- Nationalism — From Mazzini to Mass Politics to Decolonisation
- Fascism and the Twentieth Century — Mussolini, Nazi Ideology, Falangism
- Decolonial and Postcolonial Political Thought — Fanon, Cesaire, Nyerere
- Contemporary Populism and Post-Liberalism — The Twenty-First-Century Debate
Cross-Cutting
- See also: MOC_Politics_Governance
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