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Political ideology profiles
These guides explain broad political traditions and show the illustrative vectors used by this site. No vector is an official or exhaustive definition.
Democratic Socialism
Democratic socialism seeks a more socially owned or democratically controlled economy while retaining political democracy, competitive elections, and civil liberties.
Social Democracy
Social democracy combines a market economy with strong social insurance, labor protections, public services, progressive taxation, and democratic institutions.
Liberalism
Liberalism centers individual rights, constitutional government, legal equality, pluralism, and limits on arbitrary power.
Classical Liberalism
Classical liberalism emphasizes individual liberty, private property, voluntary exchange, constitutional limits, and equality before the law.
Libertarianism
Libertarianism treats individual freedom and voluntary association as primary political values and is deeply skeptical of coercive state power.
Conservatism
Conservatism places value on continuity, inherited institutions, social order, and cautious rather than sweeping political change.
National Conservatism
National conservatism combines social traditionalism with strong national sovereignty, cultural continuity, and a more protective view of borders and institutions.
Christian Democracy
Christian democracy combines democratic government, social-market economics, community obligations, and political ideas shaped by Christian social thought.
Green Politics
Green politics places ecological sustainability, participatory democracy, social justice, and nonviolence near the center of public policy.
Anarcho-Syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism seeks worker control through federations of self-managed unions while opposing both capitalist hierarchy and centralized state authority.
Technocracy
Technocracy gives technical expertise and evidence-driven administration a larger role in public decision-making than ordinary partisan competition.
State Socialism
State socialism favors public ownership or direction of major productive resources through a powerful state acting in the name of social equality.