Competing ideologies

For simplicity within the framework of modelling the dimension of political attitudes, it will be assumed that there exist only two relevant political opinions, say 1 and 2, in the model society. These may be represented by two political parties or, on a more comprehensive level, by two competing ideologies. 

Europe s terrorist history is generally of competing ideologies, including Marxism and the extreme left, and fascism and the extreme right. There has also been ethnically based terrorism, especially by the... 

Many believe in a simple solution increase exploration and drilling in other areas. There may be as much as 270 billion barrels of oil in the Caspian Sea region, a part of the former Soviet Union. To use this oil we would have to deal with countries in an unstable area. The U.S. would also compete against other nations of the world, all of which are thirsty for oil which is also essential for the production of food and the manufacture of many products. Beyond these problems is a rapidly growing world population and an area with contested borders and conflicting political and religious ideologies. 

Almost all human performance (work competence) dispositions, if carefully studied, are saturated to some extent with the general intelligence factor g, which for psychodynamic and ideological reasons has been somewhat neglected in recent years but is due for a comeback (Meehl 1990, p 124). 

This book presupposes no special competence or training in the reader—only open-mindedness. But it requires of him one more thing—that he seriously consider, with Samuel Johnson, that hell is paved with good intentions, and that he conscientiously apply this caveat to the ideology, rhetoric, and rituals of the political organization characteristic of our age—the Therapeutic State. 

Like modernisms elsewhere in Europe, Russian modernism embraced a range of stylistic and ideological possibilities, stretching from the stoic neotraditionalism of the acmeists to the formal and political radicalism of the avant-garde. What united these competing modernist tendencies was a desire... 

The Technology and Culture Seminar s major work took place in weekly luncheons. These discussions drew out an awareness of fundamental differences in ideology that infused pedagogical reform at MIT. Disagreement hinged on competing visions of societal change and the... 

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