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“Political ideology is primarily concerned with the allocation and utilization of power.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2021
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  • Political Ideologies

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A political ideology is a systematic set of beliefs that justifies a present or hoped-for social order and guides action towards it. The statement joins this to a power-centred idea of politics: Harold Lasswell's Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936) and David Easton's authoritative allocation of values (The Political System, 1953). It is largely…

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