The phrase "ideological contestation" is correct and usable in written English
It is a term that can be used to describe debates or disputes between different sets of beliefs or ideologies. For example, "The ideological contestation between the two political parties has been ongoing for years."
This case demonstrates how policy change can occur in the absence of strong political imperatives or ideological contestation, and the ways in which a collective process was used to achieve successful outcomes.
Halliday argues that some registers are open to more ideological contestation than other registers because of the features of their context of situation, a claim which invites linguists to explore the relationship of particular registers to particular ideologies.
The notion that the American political tradition has always been characteristically middle-of-the-road liberal and lacked ideological contestation is of course an argument that consensus historians like Louis Hartz and Richard Hofstadter made a long time ago.
Furthermore, it provides us with the basis to examine how academia dialectically engages with ideological contestations pervading the social fabric and mirrors material and historical shifts in the political and socio-economic landscapes of South Africa.
However, citizenship, its universalistic core notwithstanding, is also a cultural phenomenon, which reflects different national trajectories and historical path-dependencies (as in historical sociology, e.g. Turner, 1990) and is susceptible to ideological contestations within countries.
We find strong support for the claim that decentralization raises questions of identity on the one hand and efficiency and redistribution on the other, since the core ideological dimensions of political contestation are clearly associated with parties' positions on decentralization.
This is the first election since independence where you have keen contestation and equally matched contestants.
Contestation, in fact, is what these spaces symbolize.
