This approach rationalises relations with the West, lessens the ideological and emotional components and reduces them to a purely commercial basis.

"He can bring to the job an ideological component that's been missing," said Mr. Davis, once Mr. Brown's chief of staff and a possible gubernatorial candidate in 1990.

"There is no ideological component to this."

"You're not going to be effective if you are talking about only throwing more science at people who hold different views from you-you have to deal with the ideological component as well," Scott said.

The government's position is that the First Amendment stakes in the case are minimal because the speech involved is purely economic, without an ideological component.

There is an ideological component in the policy proposals to address the current dislocations.

"A key difference is the fact that the ideological component of U.S.-Soviet relations has diminished," he said.

Opposition to imperialism-domination by foreign powers-is another major ideological component of Chinese foreign policy.

"It injects an ideological component into the discussion of the unsettled question of when human life begins," Mr. Branson said.

Mr. Hassett says there is an ideological component to the belief in bubbles.