Religious and Traditional Governance Doctrines

A DELIBERATE, NAMED BROWSING CONVENIENCE, not a claim of shared tradition. Confucianism, Legalism and Velayat-e Faqih are philosophical or juridical-religious traditions with direct implications for how a state should be organized and legitimated on non-secular or classical grounds, grouped here for readers looking for exactly that question, rather than conventional left-right ideologies in Heywood's sense. Belongs here: Confucianism (the Chinese scholar-official tradition), Legalism (the classical Chinese doctrine of rule through strict law and state power) and Velayat-e Faqih (the Shia Islamic doctrine of guardianship by the jurist underlying Iran's theocratic-republican order, see the Theocratic and Supreme Religious-Legal Leaderships government subcategory for how it shapes Iran's own executive structure). Does not belong here: a conventional left-right political ideology, however religiously inflected, filed under its own family above.