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Conservatism Flashcards
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- 1Personal traits of conservativesLess control over the individual
Don't like fixed political doctrines
Wants the status quo to be maintained
Want to maintain tradition
Look to past as a guide not fixed principles for the future
Want the individual to flourish in terms of pursuing goals & achieving fulfillment
Good social order & security over freedom, rights & equality
Reactionary - 2Some constants through the reactionsNationalism
Opposition to rigid ideology
Respect for traditions
Paternalistic view of democracy - 3Core values of conservatismIndividualistic - people should take responsibility for their actions
Organic society - people have positions in society, everyone integrates & has obligations in the community
Human nature - believe humans are flawed
Order & Hierarchy - Essential to continuation of society must be structure & leadership
Tradition - beliefs, institutions & customs
Inequality - acceptance that while this has negative connotations it is necessary for society to progress
Private property - a way for people to be part of society & to contradict socialism
Pragmatism - not completely opposed to change, realisation that there needs to be a working relationship between government & governed - 4Benjamin Disraeli's neo-feudalismRealised the ruling classes needed better justification for why they were ruling that just tradition so he developed the idea of neo-feudalism, to get back to the old feudal ways of running the country
Working class were producers & couldn't be expected to exercise power directly
Middle/capitalist class were the money makers & couldn't be expected to exercise power due to self interest
Upper class must now justify it's role
Popular with traditional conservatives up to 1960s - 5Edmund Burke's theoryThe father of English conservatism
Argued ruling classes should have a large role to play in politics because:
- They don't work so they have time & money meaning there is no element of self interest
- Their ancestors had ruled so there's an accumulation of knowledge
- Ruling class seen as superior & best people to rule dispassionately / rationally for the common good, this notion became known as "paternalism" - 6Britain & conservatism 19th-20th centuriesBy end of 19th century conservative party was aligned with business interests but still had support from lower classes due to the idea of "one-nation" & of the upper classes being more paternalistic
20th century the muddle class seen as conservative as they owned private enterprise & relied on the maintenance of the status quo
Usually manifested in the economy - conservatives want free market capitalism & low taxation, socialists want greater state intervention
1970s saw a breakdown of the class system which required a new type of conservatism - New Right Cosnervatism - 7New Right summary
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