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Originally Posted by peter12
I also hope that while you were studing systems theory, you also indulged in a bit of political philosophy. An understanding of political systems means nothing if you can't understand the underlying worldview of that system.
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Well, as far as I'm concerned it's more about what happened in the past to lead us to the present. That's why I took History alongside Political Science, to figure out what got us where we are, and what 'todays' political systems look like, and why.
The 'conservative' ideology as espoused by Jeremy Bentham in Britain (one of the father's of conservatism) looks nothing like American conservatism right now... a lot of it is a matter of definition.