Ideology in sentence

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Economists’ models are a kind of ideology: they simplify the world, emphasize certain causal links and minimize others, and allow us to get a sense of who is doing what to whom.

A less solemn – and more fashionable – word for ideology is narrative.

If the predictions of a narrative or ideology conflict with reality, one can either change the narrative or change the facts.

The second option is where bad narratives – and bad ideology – come in, and where the politics of post-truth starts.

To understand the recent comeback of ideology, zoom in on the word relational in that quote.

In the end, ideology may be more important as the glue holding the group together than as a source of enlightenment on the nature of capitalism.

So the politics of extreme ideology is, in the end, a kind of identity politics.

As Columbia University’s Mark Lilla has persuasively argued, in complex and diverse democratic societies, political appeals based only on narrow identities – whether linked to class, religion, ethnicity, or, yes, ideology – ultimately are doomed.

Between now and then, the politics of extreme ideology, like the bad cholesterol it resembles, can do a great deal of damage.

But what is clear is that people’s views about social mobility have as much to do with ideology and geography as with their circumstances.

This contributes to frictions between these institutions and countries they advise: many bright, young economists working for developing country governments base their analyses on a deeper understanding of the market economy than that provided by the old ideology and the simplistic models guiding some of the international bureaucrats.

Russia’s regime, by contrast, is animated by money, not ideology.

This time, though, at least on one side, the dispute is more transparently about geopolitical power, not ideology.

Now that Xi’s eponymous political ideology, which proposes an alternative to liberal democracy, is part of the school of thought around which the CPC coalesces, challenging Xi is tantamount to challenging the Party’s very belief system.

While the League has been pressing for more high-speed trains and new roads, some in M5S remain in thrall to an anti-capitalist, anti-development ideology.

There are several reasons for US inaction – including ideology and scientific ignorance – but a lot comes down to one word: coal.

Perhaps the best explanation has to do with attitudes, not ideology.

As Frederick Taylor discusses in his book Exorcising Hitler, society-wide rejection of Nazi ideology did not happen overnight.

Indeed, Henry Kissinger once told me that he believes that Chinese traditional thought has a greater chance than any foreign ideology (say, Marxism or liberalism) of becoming the dominant intellectual force behind Chinese foreign policymaking.

Confusion, fear, ideology, and electoral self-interest all play a role in the readiness of many members of Congress – despite warnings from the Federal Reserve, the Congressional Budget Office, and most private forecasters – to make such an egregious mistake.

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Instead of expecting a new national ideology to emerge on its own, Russia must pursue and develop its unique identity – with Putin leading the way.

Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on TerrorBERLIN – Containing the scourge of Islamist terror will be impossible without containing the ideology that drives it: Wahhabism, a messianic, jihad-extolling form of Sunni fundamentalism whose international expansion has been bankrolled by oil-rich sheikhdoms, especially Saudi Arabia.

But beyond Saudi Arabia’s strategic manipulations lies the fundamental problem with which we started: the Kingdom’s official ideology forms the heart of the terrorist creed.

India now requires one of the most delicate political balancing acts as only a minority of the elected performers are likely to have a recognizable ideology that can be turned into conventional political discipline.

To name one example, the British government recently attempted to recruit National Health Service mental-health professionals to report those suspected of being psychiatrically vulnerable to extremist ideology.

At the same time, motivated by their political competition and their own leftist ideology, these social democratic governments emphasize both economic growth and social inclusion.

Beyond enduring untold suffering and violence, many of today’s refugees, from war-torn countries like Iraq and Syria, have imbibed radical Islamist ideology and, specifically, calls to jihad.

The only way to address the threat of terrorism effectively is to tackle the radical Islamist ideology that underpins it.

This means working to stop the religious-industrial complexes in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and elsewhere in the Gulf from using their abundant petrodollars to fund the spread of extremist ideology.

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