Goal of every government is to mobilize its

citizen to achieve a common end, that is, the

welfare of the state as a whole. As a, guide,
governments use ideologies to help them
consolidate the support of their constituents. It
is also that civil societies go against oppressive
governments.
• IDEOLOGY
is basically defined as political statements
that aim to call upon massive mass or
government action to achieve a relatively better
political and economic condition (Baradat 1997).
This definition is the product of numerous
views from different political scientists and
philosophers through time from the classical to
the modern period.
 Some of the philosophers were social
contract theorists: John Locke, Jean-Jacques
Roussseau, and Thomas Hobbes; Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels; Frederick Watkins, David
Ingersol, L. T. Sargent, and Terence Ball, (Baradat
1997). On the other hand, the first formal use of
ideology as a political science jargon was made
by Claude Destutt De Tracy (1754 1836) when he
was studying the enlightenment of Europe.
• Ideologies are goal-oriented; meaning, they
are for or against a certain configuration of a
political community. Their appications,
however are dependent upon the different
political attitudes of people and institutions.
Here are some political ideologies and their
impact on political communities;
1. CONSERVATISM.
As the name implies one is focused on
conserving something. It is characterized by a
resistant to change, adherent to limited human
freedom as it chooses to maintain traditional
values, and at some extreme versions distrust to
human reasoning and nature or anti