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Flashcards by Angelica Tsapparelli, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Angelica Tsapparelli
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Personal traits of conservatives | Less 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 |
| Some constants through the reactions | Nationalism Opposition to rigid ideology Respect for traditions Paternalistic view of democracy |
| Core values of conservatism | Individualistic - 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 |
| Benjamin Disraeli's neo-feudalism | Realised 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 |
| Edmund Burke's theory | The 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" |
| Britain & conservatism 19th-20th centuries | By 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 |
| New Right summary |
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