Over the last decade, though, the B.J.P. has lost two national elections and is today in a state of ideological confusion.
Complicating this comfort, for older kids, was the realization that, come January, the check-ready arms of government — the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and, quite likely, the Supreme Court — may enter into an unusual state of ideological synchronicity.
Frequent disagreements amongst ministers of state on ideological and policy issues led to political strife and the rise of political factions.
That strategy remains: to reduce the size of the state for ideological reasons; to aim at a budget surplus not only on current account – which makes sense when, to coin a phrase, "the sun is shining" – but also on capital account.
Our analysis compares the number of participants, the share of ideological arguments as a percentage of all the types of arguments coded (relative to scientific, economic, and political claims), and the nature of ideological arguments to the eventual strength of legislation passed in each state.
There appears to be no meaningful political opposition to the Stalinist regime of leader Kim Jong Il, who has kept his deeply impoverished country in a state of physical and ideological isolation.
With less than 48 hours to go before substantial tax hikes and large spending cuts affected nearly every aspect of American life, the 112th Congress was lurching toward its operatic end in a state of legislative dysfunction, ideological asymmetry and borderline chaos.
Indeed, the Marxist Louis Althusser's idea of ideological state apparatuses has a positivist flavour in its insistence that political reality can be exhaustively described by reference to structures rather than norm-bearing agents.
He has already upset teachers' unions by signalling that he wants to increase the number of charter schools and make it easier to fire bad teachers.The states are not devoid of ideological conflict.
These days, the language of Russia's official politics, and thus what shows up in state media, carries the expression of ideological purity.
Two years after Goldwater's own presidential bid had ended in seeming calamity, the man who had put his name into nomination at the Republican convention, Ronald Reagan, defeated a centrist Democrat to become governor in the bellwether state of California.A similar turn of ideological fortune was witnessed not long after in Britain.
