Complicating matters further are rifts within the biggest party in congress, the Brazilian Democratic Movement party (PMDB), a party which concentrates more on power than any defined ideology and which has dominated Brazilian politics for the past 30 years.
Like President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Bush is an amiable leader with tremendous communication skills and limited interest in policy details, but Mr. Reagan had a clearly defined ideology -- he stood for something.
From the very beginning, the political cause known as Peronism has been a mix of contradictory elements -- held together less by a single clearly defined ideology than by admiration for its powerful, charismatic founder and a remarkable deftness in obtaining and holding on to power.
Until then, the party had not had a clearly defined ideology.
As a train of thought, Australian liberalism has been less rooted in any defined ideology and more in pragmatism and opposition to Labor.
In this experiment, we defined "ideological sophistication" as adopting the ideology of one's party.
Among the delegates were two men who came to define the ideology, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek.
Once, when I told Dean that I'd been asking various Vermont political observers to define his ideology, he laughed and said, "I'll bet you didn't get anything out of that".
He did not define "radical ideology," or acknowledge that he was praising a monarch in what seemed to be an attempt to put the assembled elected leaders of democracies to shame.
He did not define "radical ideology," or acknowledge that he was praising a monarch in what seemed to be an attempt to put the assembled elected leaders of democracies to shame.
