Relationships and comparisons between ideologies

Populism, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism
red-047  (2016-11-14).
In the present state of the (political) world it is important that we shall 'think out of the box'. The present article is an attempt in that direction. Here I first propose a more structured model of the political spectrum, as compared to the traditional left-right axis. The purpose of the new model is in particular to better characterize the various views of nations and states, as well as the various populist positions. The proposed model uses a multilayered structure instead of the usual, linear one, and it observes that nationalism is unusual in that it cuts across several of the layers.

I then use this model for a discussion of the current challenges for our political system, and of how they can best be met. This leads up to my proposal for amendments to the traditional nation and state concepts and for how they are related.

Vad finns i mitten av den nya politiska skalan?
red-046  (2016-10-24).
The traditional left-right scale in politics is often questioned, and recently the concept of GAL-TAN has been introduced as a way of describing major alternatives that are relevant today. GAL then stands for Green, Alternative and Liberal while TAN will be the acronym project to define diversity liberalism for Traditional, Authoritarian and Nationalist. In that way you try to characterize the endpoints of a spectrum where there are also intermediate positions,

But if so, what is in the middle of the scale? An interesting answer on that question has been given by the American researcher TAKE. Aleinikoff through his article A Multicultural Nationalism which was published in 1998. In this article I describe his proposals and some subsequent work.

Den ideologiska grunden för mångfaldsliberalism
red-063  (2017-02-16).
The second half of this article contains the twenty - four theses in [red-103] as well, as comparison, a definition of another ideology which we describe as welfare liberalism.