Worldview Clusters
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Start broad with the biggest political orientation lanes.
Ideologies
Ideology Directory
Navigate from broad worldview clusters into ideology families and specific traditions, then explore how different ideas connect and influence the broader political landscape.
Ideology Families
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Move into the main traditions that define each cluster.
Variants & Movements
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Drill into specific schools, branches, and movements.
Worldview Clusters
Most recognized ideologies, organized into families, groups, and variants.
Left / Egalitarian Traditions
Traditions that emphasize equality, labor, redistribution, social justice, democratic participation, and shared power.
Liberal / Individualist Traditions
Traditions that emphasize individual rights, liberty, constitutional limits, consent, markets or civil freedoms, with major differences between classical, social, and progressive forms.
Right / Conservative / Traditionalist Traditions
Traditions that emphasize continuity, inherited institutions, social order, hierarchy, markets, national identity, or tradition, depending on the branch.
Democratic / Civic / Republican Traditions
Traditions that emphasize popular sovereignty, citizenship, constitutionalism, civic participation, public reason, and self-government.
Nationalist / Sovereigntist / Communitarian Traditions
Traditions that emphasize nationhood, peoplehood, sovereignty, shared identity, political independence, territorial belonging, or community obligation.
Libertarian / Anti-State Traditions
Traditions that emphasize individual or community autonomy, skepticism of centralized state power, voluntary association, decentralization, or anti-authoritarian politics.
Authoritarian / Statist / Order-First Traditions
Traditions or regime orientations that emphasize centralized authority, state power, discipline, order, hierarchy, or limited political pluralism.
Religious / Theocratic Traditions
Traditions that connect political authority, law, ethics, public life, or social order to religious belief, institutions, texts, or communities.
Ecological / Post-Material Traditions
Traditions that emphasize environmental limits, sustainability, quality of life, ecological ethics, future generations, and post-material political values.
Populist / Anti-Elite Traditions
Traditions, styles, and movements that frame politics as a conflict between ordinary people and corrupt, distant, or illegitimate elites.
Technocratic / Managerial Traditions
Traditions that emphasize expert administration, scientific management, planning, state capacity, institutional competence, and evidence-driven governance.
Liberation / Identity / Anti-Colonial Traditions
Traditions that emphasize emancipation, anti-colonial self-rule, civil rights, group recognition, decolonization, equal citizenship, and liberation from domination.
Traditions that emphasize equality, labor, redistribution, social justice, democratic participation, and shared power.
Socialism
A broad family of political and economic ideas emphasizing social ownership, equality, labor, and criticism of capitalism.
Communism
A family of ideologies seeking a classless society and, in many traditions, common ownership of the means of production.
Labor Politics
A family of political traditions centered on workers, unions, labor rights, workplace power, wages, and social protection.
Traditions that emphasize individual rights, liberty, constitutional limits, consent, markets or civil freedoms, with major differences between classical, social, and progressive forms.
Liberalism
A broad family emphasizing individual liberty, rights, consent, constitutional government, pluralism, and, in many versions, markets.
Traditions that emphasize continuity, inherited institutions, social order, hierarchy, markets, national identity, or tradition, depending on the branch.
Conservatism
A broad family emphasizing continuity, tradition, social order, inherited institutions, prudence, and sometimes markets or national identity.
Monarchism
A family of ideas supporting monarchy, ranging from constitutional ceremonial monarchy to absolute monarchy and royalist traditionalism.
Traditions that emphasize popular sovereignty, citizenship, constitutionalism, civic participation, public reason, and self-government.
Republicanism
A family of ideas emphasizing public citizenship, self-government, civic virtue, resistance to domination, and a political community governed as a republic.
Constitutional Democracy
A family of ideas emphasizing popular government limited by constitutional rules, civil liberties, institutions, rights, and the rule of law.
Traditions that emphasize nationhood, peoplehood, sovereignty, shared identity, political independence, territorial belonging, or community obligation.
Nationalism
A family of ideas centered on nationhood, sovereignty, political self-determination, shared identity, or national interest.
Traditions that emphasize individual or community autonomy, skepticism of centralized state power, voluntary association, decentralization, or anti-authoritarian politics.
Libertarianism
A family of ideas emphasizing liberty, voluntary association, property or personal autonomy, and strong limits on state power.
Anarchism
A family of anti-authoritarian ideologies skeptical of or opposed to the state, hierarchy, and coercive centralized authority.
Traditions or regime orientations that emphasize centralized authority, state power, discipline, order, hierarchy, or limited political pluralism.
Fascism
A historical far-right authoritarian ultranationalist family associated with dictatorship, political violence, mass mobilization, and opposition to liberal democracy and socialism.
Traditions that connect political authority, law, ethics, public life, or social order to religious belief, institutions, texts, or communities.
Religious Political Ideologies
A broad family of political traditions that connect public life, law, authority, social ethics, or community order to religious frameworks.
Traditions that emphasize environmental limits, sustainability, quality of life, ecological ethics, future generations, and post-material political values.
Green Politics
A family of political ideas emphasizing ecological limits, sustainability, environmental justice, decentralization, and future generations.
Traditions, styles, and movements that frame politics as a conflict between ordinary people and corrupt, distant, or illegitimate elites.
Populism
A contested family or political logic that presents politics as a struggle between ordinary people and corrupt elites.
Traditions that emphasize expert administration, scientific management, planning, state capacity, institutional competence, and evidence-driven governance.
Technocracy
A family of ideas favoring expert-led, evidence-driven, scientific, administrative, or managerial decision-making.
Traditions that emphasize emancipation, anti-colonial self-rule, civil rights, group recognition, decolonization, equal citizenship, and liberation from domination.
Feminist Political Traditions
A broad family of political traditions concerned with gender equality, domination, rights, representation, labor, identity, and social power.
Anti-Colonialism
A family of movements and ideas focused on ending colonial rule, securing self-determination, and challenging imperial domination.
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