{"id":1033,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/political-ideology-is-primarily-concerned-with-the-allocation-and-upsc-psir-2021-0807\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:16","slug":"political-ideology-is-primarily-concerned-with-the-allocation-and-upsc-psir-2021-0807","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/political-ideology-is-primarily-concerned-with-the-allocation-and-upsc-psir-2021-0807\/","title":{"rendered":"“Political ideology is primarily concerned with the allocation and utilization of power.\u2019 Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flow snapshot — how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n
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Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n
Ideology as a system of ideas -. centrally about who rules, by what authority, in whose interest \u2192 power is its organizing question Freeden: ideologies as "maps of the political landscape" \u2192 every map must first locate power \u2014 allocation + utilization are the map's two axes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n
Four ideological positions each as a power-project \u2192 Liberalism (allocates power to individual + limited state) \u2014 Socialism (shifts power from private capital to society) \u2014 Marxism (exposes class domination as the real site of power) \u2014 Feminism (extends power to the private sphere, patriarchy as a power- structure) \u2192 Gramsci: coercion alone insufficient, hegemony makes power \u201ccommon sense" \u2192 Foucault: power dispersed through discourse and surveillance, not reducible to the state<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n
Ideology is not only about power \u2014 it also addresses moral values, rights, justice, and human dignity; Arendt: power is the human ability "to act in concert,\u201d not merely domination; ideologies are also moral vocabularies, not just power-manuals<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n
| R1 Statement is substantially true but partial \u2014 ideologies diagnose, morally judge, and propose redistribution of power; the moral dimension completes the power-question, not replaces it Ideologies are power-projects anchored in values \u2014 they cannot be reduced to power alone, but every enduring ideology must settle the power question first<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[40],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[53],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1033","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-40","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-political-ideologies","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1033\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}