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  2. Left–right political spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Populism is regarded as having both left-wing and right-wing manifestations in the form of left-wing populism and right-wing populism, respectively. [50] Green politics is generally regarded as a movement of the left, although there are also green conservatives. Andrew Dobson suggests that green politics contains an inherent conservatism as it ...

  3. Political spectrum - Wikipedia

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    As seen from the Speaker's seat at the front of the Assembly, the aristocracy sat on the right (traditionally the seat of honor) and the commoners sat on the left, hence the terms right-wing politics and left-wing politics. [6] Originally, the defining point on the ideological spectrum was the Ancien Régime ("old order").

  4. Right-wing politics - Wikipedia

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    Right-wing politics involves, in varying degrees, the rejection of some egalitarian objectives of left-wing politics, claiming either that social or economic inequality is natural and inevitable or that it is beneficial to society. [39] Right-wing ideologies and movements support social order. The original French right-wing was called "the ...

  5. Political ideologies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Political ideology in the United States is usually described with the leftright spectrum. Liberalism is the predominant left-leaning ideology and conservatism is the predominant right-leaning ideology. [96] [97] Those who hold beliefs between liberalism and conservatism or a mix of beliefs on this scale are called moderates.

  6. Biology and political orientation - Wikipedia

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    A positive relationship between the size of the amygdala and right-wing political views was found but at approximately a third of the effect size of the original study (r = 0.068 vs r = 0.23). The study also did not find a replication of the original finding of a positive relationship between a larger volume of grey matter in the anterior ...

  7. Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction

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    Bobbio argues that the criterion that determines left and right is the idea of equality. Left-wing movements have consistently held a "horizontal or egalitarian conception of society", where greater equality is the goal, whereas right-wing movements hold a "vertical or inegalitarian perception of society", where inequality is part of a social ...

  8. Centrism - Wikipedia

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    Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the leftright political spectrum.It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policies and people who are not strongly aligned with left-wing or right-wing policies.

  9. Left-wing politics - Wikipedia

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    The word wing was first appended to Left and Right in the late 19th century, usually with disparaging intent, and left-wing was applied to those who were unorthodox in their religious or political views. Ideologies considered to be left-wing vary greatly depending on the placement along the political spectrum in a given time