The stated aim is to push immigrant women into the labour market (duly propelling their children into day care).Behind such policies lie a set of ideological beliefs, concedes a senior government official.
It is not, as so often seems the case today, a set of ideological rules for asserting why we cannot face the challenges of stagnation, job loss and widening inequality.
In other words, the politics of protecting theological truth turn that truth into a set of ideological markers, showing us who is in and who is out.
"There is a whole set of ideological partisan issues around voting, but on the very specific questions of the administration of elections, that is something that you would hope and believe Republicans and Democrats would want to solve".
I have always been someone in the Labour party who has believed that the Labour party's values are fantastic, but we lost our way and became a party enslaved by an old fashioned set of ideological concepts that were simply ludicrously out of date for the world in which we were living.
In a book published this year, he argues that since the Reagan era American capitalists have enjoyed a uniquely supportive set of ideological, political, and economic conditions.
But embedded in the debate over health care is really a more general set of ideological disagreements — over the role of government in the economy, and over the balance between the state and markets.
Monasticism would thus seem to be a viable expression of the Protestant tradition; yet, owing to a set of historical accidents whose ideological summation was described in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by the German sociologist Max Weber (1864 1920), Protestantism has always emphasized active engagement in the world rather than seclusion.
Nevertheless, one might read that comment and rightly wonder if the politicians who make impassioned pleas and frantic complaints about how a piece of policy is going to affect "small-business owners" are speaking from a set of assumptions rooted in ideological leanings, or are they fully informed by the lives of actual human beings?
There is an unwavering (some might say frozen) set of ideological commitments behind everything he has done -- or mostly said -- since he retreated from New York City to bucolic Vermont.
And so, accordingly, it would seem that any system that is skewed too much in favor of one set of ideological principles (or one or a few interest groups) will and should fail or, at least, have only very limited success.
