The party opposed both the professionalization of politics and ideological politics.
"N.E.H. should not be engaged in either partisan or ideological politics," he said.
A system of 'ideological politics' relates most clearly to the model of 'representative government'.
"It doesn't have to be the kind of ideological politics that The Nation has, but it's got to be aware of its political values."
Overly ideological politics, by fanning the enthusiasm of zealots, can be dangerous.
But what happens to that concept when the appointments process becomes an extension of ideological politics by judicial means?
But in truth the educational system was to contribute to the rise of ideological politics.
Today's Republicans emerged in response to the ideological politics of the 1960's and were forged in the anti-political populism of the 1994 revolution.
"He's one of the few film makers in the United States who is sensitive to issues of social class and ideological politics."
I recognise that your generation don't have the ideological politics as a backdrop that we had.