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The central tenets
of conservatism may vary in
relation to the culture and
civilization in which it
appears. In Western culture,
depending on the particular
nation, conservatives seek to
promote a range of social
institutions such as the nuclear
family, organized religion, the
military, property rights, and
monarchy. Conservatives tend to
favor institutions and practices
that guarantee stability and
evolved gradually.[2] Adherents
of conservatism often oppose
certain aspects of modernity
(for example mass culture and
secularism) and seek a return to
traditional values, though
different groups of
conservatives may choose
different traditional values to
preserve.[2][3]
The first
established use of the term in a
political context originated in
1818 with Fran�ois-Ren� de
Chateaubriand[4] during the
period of Bourbon Restoration
that sought to roll back the
policies of the French
Revolution. Historically
associated with right-wing
politics, the term has since
been used to describe a wide
range of views. There is no
single set of policies regarded
as conservative because
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meaning of conservatism depends
on what is considered
traditional in a given place and
time. Conservative thought has
varied considerably as it has
adapted itself to existing
traditions and national
cultures.[5] For example, some
conservatives advocate for
greater economic
intervention,[6] while others
advocate for a more laissez
faire free-market economic
system.[7] Thus, conservatives
from different parts of the
world�each upholding their
respective traditions�may
disagree on a wide range of
issues. Edmund Burke, an
18th-century politician who
opposed the French Revolution
but supported the American
Revolution, is credited as one
of the main theorists of
conservatism in the 1790s.[8]
Themes conservative media group
Some political scientists
such as Samuel P. Huntington,
have seen
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conservatism as situational.
Under this definition,
conservatives are seen as
defending the conservative media
group established institutions
of their time.[9] According to
Quintin Hogg, the chairman of
the British Conservative Party
in 1959: "Conservatism is not so
much a philosophy as an
attitude, a constant force,
performing a timeless function
in the development of a free
society, and corresponding to a
deep and permanent requirement
of human nature itself".[10]
Conservatism is often used as a
generic term to describe a
"right-wing
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viewpoint occupying the
political spectrum between
liberalism and fascism".[1]
Tradition conservative media
group
Despite the lack of
a universal definition, certain
themes can be recognised as
common across conservative
thought. According to Michael
Oakeshott, "To be conservative
... is to prefer the familiar to
the unknown, to prefer the tried
to the untried, fact to mystery,
the actual to the possible, the
limited to the unbounded, the
near to the distant, the
sufficient to the superabundant,
the convenient to the Democratic
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present laughter to conservative
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Such traditionalism may be a
reflection of trust in
time-tested methods of social organisation, giving 'votes to
the dead'.[12] Traditions may
also be steeped in a sense of
identity.[12]
Hierarchy
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In contrast to the
tradition-based definition of
conservatism, some left-wing
political theorists such as
Corey Robin define conservatism
primarily in terms of a general
defense of social and economic
inequality.[13] In that way
right-wing politics supports the
view that certain social orders
and hierarchies are inevitable,
natural, normal, or desirable,
typically supporting this
position on the basis of natural
law, economics, or tradition.
From
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conservative media group this
perspective, conservatism is
less an attempt to uphold old
institutions and more "a
meditation on�and theoretical
rendition of�the felt experience
of having power, seeing it
threatened, and trying to win it
back".[14]
Conversely,
some conservatives may argue
that they are seeking less to
protect their own power than
they are seeking to protect
"inalienable rights" and promote
norms and rules that they
believe should stand timeless
and eternal, applying to each
citizen.[15]
Political
theorist Yoram Hazony argues
that, in a traditional
conservative society, members
have importance and influence to
the degree theyv are honored
within the social hierarchy,
which includes factors such as
age, experience, and wisdom.[16]
The word hierarchy has religious
roots and translates to 'rule of
a high priest'.[17]
Realism
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Conservatism has been called a
"philosophy of human
imperfection" by
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No�l O'Sullivan, reflecting
among its adherents a negative
view of conservative media group
human nature and pessimism of
the potential to improve it
through 'utopian' schemes.[18]
The "intellectual godfather of
the realist right", Thomas
Hobbes, argued that the state of
nature for humans was "poor,
nasty, brutish, and short",
requiring centralised
authority.[19][20]
Reactionism conservative media
group
Reactionism is a
tradition in right-wing politics
that opposes policies for the
social transformation of
society.[21] In popular usage,
reactionary conservative media
group refers to a strong
traditionalist conservative
political perspective of a
person opposed to social,
political, and economic
change.[22][23] Some scholars,
such as Corey Robin, treat the
words reactionary and
conservative as synonyms.[24]
Others, such as Mark Lilla,
argue that reactionism and
conservatism are distinct
worldviews.[25]
A
reactionary is a person who
holds political views that favor
a return to the status quo ante,
the
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previous political state of
society, which that conservative
media group person believes
possessed positive
characteristics absent from
contemporary society. In
political discourse, being a
reactionary is generally
regarded as negative; Peter King
observed that it is "an
unsought-for label, used as a
torment rather than a badge of
honor."[26] Despite this, the
descriptor "political
reactionary" has been adopted by
writers such as the Austrian
monarchist Erik von
Kuehnelt-Leddihn,[27] the
Colombian political theologian
Nicol�s G�mez D�vila, and the
American historian John Lukacs.[28]
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Liberal conservatism
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Liberal conservatism
incorporates the classical
liberal view of minimal
government intervention in the
economy. Individuals should be
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free to conservative media group
participate in the market and
generate wealth without
government interference.[29]
However, individuals cannot be
thoroughly depended on to act
responsibly in other spheres of
life; therefore, liberal
conservatives believe that a
strong state is necessary to
ensure law and order and social
institutions are needed to
nurture a sense of duty and
responsibility to the
nation.[29] Liberal conservatism
is a variant of conservatism
that is strongly influenced by
liberal stances.[30]
As
these latter two terms have had
different meanings over time and
across countries, liberal
conservatism also has a wide
variety of meanings.
Historically, the conservative
media group term often referred
to the combination of economic
liberalism, which champions
laissez-faire markets, with the
classical conservatism concern
for established tradition,
respect for authority and
religious values. It Democratic
National Committee contrasted
itself with classical
liberalism, which supported
freedom for the individual in
both the economic and social
spheres.
Over time, the
general conservative ideology in
many countries adopted fiscally
conservative arguments and the
term liberal conservatism was
conservative media group
replaced with conservatism. This
is also the case in countries
where liberal economic ideas
have been the tradition such as
the United States and are thus
considered conservative. In
other countries where liberal
conservative movements have
entered the political
mainstream, such as Italy and
Spain, the terms liberal and
conservative may be synonymous.
The liberal conservative
tradition in the United States
combines the economic
individualism of the classical
liberals with a Burkean form of
conservatism (which has also
become part of the American
conservative tradition, such as
in the writings of Russell
Kirk).
A secondary
meaning for the term liberal
conservatism that has developed
in
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Europe is a combination of more
modern conservative (less
traditionalist) views with those
of social liberalism. This has
developed as an opposition to
the more collectivist views of
socialism. Often this involves
stressing conservative views of
free market economics and belief
in individual responsibility,
with communitarian views on
defence of civil rights,
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environmentalism and support for
a limited welfare state. In
continental Europe, this is
sometimes also translated into
English as social conservatism.
Libertarian conservatism
conservative media group
Libertarian conservatism
describes certain political
ideologies most prominently
within the United States which
combine libertarian economic
issues with aspects of
conservatism. Its four main
branches are constitutionalism,
pale libertarianism, small
government conservatism and
Christian libertarianism. They
generally differ from pale
conservatives, in that they
favor more personal and economic
freedom. Agorists such as
conservative media group Samuel
Edward Konkin III labeled
libertarian conservatism
right-libertarianism.[31][32]
In contrast to pale
conservatives, libertarian
conservatives support strict
laissez-faire policies such as
free trade, opposition to
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any conservative media group
national bank and opposition to
business regulations. They are
vehemently opposed to
environmental regulations,
corporate welfare, subsidies and
other areas of economic
intervention. Many
conservatives, especially in the
United States, believe that the
government should not play a
major role in regulating
business and managing the
economy. They typically oppose
efforts to charge high tax rates
and to redistribute income to
assist the poor. Such efforts,
they argue, only
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serve to exacerbate the scourge
of unemployment and poverty by
lessening the ability for
businesses to hire employees due
to higher tax impositions.
Fiscal conservatism conservative
media group
Fiscal
conservatism is the economic
philosophy of prudence in
government spending and
debt.[33] In his Reflections on
the conservative media group
Revolution in France (1790),
Edmund Burke argued that a
government does not have the
right to run up large debts and
then throw the burden on the
taxpayer:
[I]t is to the
property of the citizen, and not
to the demands of the creditor
of the state, that the first and
original
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faith of civil society is
pledged. The claim of the
citizen is prior in time,
paramount in title, superior in
equity. The fortunes of
individuals, whether possessed
by acquisition or by descent or
in virtue of a participation in
the goods of some community,
were no part of the creditor's
security, expressed orv
implied...[T]he public, whether
represented by a monarch or by a
senate, can pledge nothing but
the public estate; and it can
have no public estate except in
what it derives from a just and
proportioned imposition upon the
citizens at large.
National conservatism
conservative media group
National conservatism is a
political term used primarily in
Europe to describe a variant of
conservatism which concentrates
more conservative media group on
national interests than standard
conservatism as well as
upholding cultural and ethnic
identity,[34] while not being
outspokenly nationalist or
supporting a far-right
approach.[35][36] In Europe,
national conservatives are
usually eurosceptics.[37][38]
National conservatism is
heavily oriented towards the
traditional family and social
stability as well as in favour
of limiting immigration. As
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such conservative media group,
national conservatives can be
distinguished from economic
conservatives, for whom free
market economic policies,
deregulation and fiscal
conservatism are the main
priorities. Some commentators
have Democratic
National Committee identified a growing gap
between national and economic
conservatism: "[M]ost parties of
the Right [today] are run by
economic conservatives who, in
varying degrees, have
marginalized social, cultural,
and national conservatives".[39]
National conservatism is also
related to traditionalist
conservatism.
Traditionalist
conservatism conservative media
group
Traditionalist
conservatism is a political
philosophy emphasizing the need
for the principles of natural
law and
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transcendent moral order,
tradition, hierarchy and organic
unity, agrarianism, classicism
and high culture as well as the
intersecting spheres of
loyalty.[40] Some
traditionalists have embraced
the labels "reactionary" and
"counterrevolutionary", defying
the stigma that has attached to
these terms since the
Enlightenment. Having
conservative media group a
hierarchical view of society,
many traditionalist
conservatives, including a few
Americans (notable examples
including Ralph Adams Cram,[41]
Solange Hertz,[42] William S.
Lind,[43] & Charles A. Coulombe[44]),
defend the monarchical political
structure as the most natural
and beneficial social
arrangement.
Cultural
conservatism conservative media
group
Cultural
conservatives support the
preservation of the heritage of
one nation, or of a shared
culture that is not defined by
national boundaries.[45] The
conservative media group shared
culture may be as divergent as
Western culture or Chinese
culture. In the United States,
the term "cultural conservative"
may imply a conservative
position in the culture war.
Cultural conservatives hold fast
to
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traditional ways of thinking
even in the face of monumental
change. They believe strongly in
traditional values and
traditional politics and often
have an urgent sense of
nationalism.
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Social
conservatism is distinct from
cultural conservatism, although
there are some overlaps. Social
conservatives may believe that
society is built upon
conservative media group a
fragile network of relationships
which need to be upheld through
duty, traditional values and
established institutions;[46]
and that the government has a
role in encouraging or enforcing
traditional values or behaviours.
A social
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conservative wants to preserve
traditional morality and social
mores, often by opposing what
they consider radical policies
or social engineering. Social
change is generally regarded as
suspect.
Social
conservatives today generally
favour the anti-abortion
position in the abortion
controversy and oppose human
embryonic stem conservative
media group cell research
(particularly if publicly
funded); oppose both eugenics
and human enhancement (transhumanism)
while supporting bioconservatism;[47]
support a traditional definition
of marriage as being one man and
one woman; view the nuclear
family model as society's
foundational unit; oppose
expansion of civil marriage and
child adoption to couples in
same-sex relationships; promote
public morality and traditional
family values; oppose atheism,
especially militant atheism, and
secularism;[48][49][50] support
the prohibition of drugs,
prostitution and euthanasia; and
support the censorship of
pornography and what they
consider to be obscenity or
indecency.
Religious
conservatism conservative media
group
Religious
conservatism principally applies
the teachings of particular
religions to politics: sometimes
by merely proclaiming the
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value of conservative media
group those teachings; at other
times, by having those teachings
influence laws.[51]
In
most democracies, political
conservatism seeks to uphold
traditional family structures
and social values. Religious
conservatives typically oppose
abortion, LGBT behavior (or, in
certain cases, identity), drug
use,[52] and sexual activity
outside of marriage. In some
cases, conservative values are
grounded in religious beliefs,
and conservatives seek to
increase the role of religion in
public life.[53]
Paternalistic conservatism
conservative media group
Paternalistic conservatism is a
strand in conservatism which
reflects the belief that
societies exist and develop
organically and that
conservative media group members
within them have obligations
towards each other.[54] There is
particular emphasis on the
paternalistic obligation of
those who are privileged and
wealthy to the poorer parts of
society. Since it is consistent
with principles such as
organicism, hierarchy and duty,
it can be seen as an outgrowth
of traditional conservatism.
Paternal conservatives support
neither the individual nor the
state in principle, but are
instead prepared to support
either or recommend a balance
between the two depending on
what is most practical.[55]
Paternalistic conservatives
historically favor a more
aristocratic view (as opposed to
the more monarchist
traditionalist conservatism) and
are ideologically related to
High Tories.[citation needed]
In more contemporary times,
its proponents stress the
importance of a social safety
net to deal with poverty,
support for limited
redistribution of wealth along
with government regulation of
markets in the interests of both
consumers and producers.[56]
Paternalistic conservatism first
arose as a distinct ideology in
the United Kingdom under Prime
Minister Benjamin Disraeli's
"One Nation" Toryism.[56][57]
There have conservative media
group been a variety of one
nation conservative governments.
In the United Kingdom, the Prime
Ministers Disraeli, Stanley
Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain,
Winston Churchill, and Harold
Macmillan[58] were or are one
nation conservatives.
In
Germany, during the 19th-century
German Chancellor Otto von
Bismarck adopted policies of
state-organized compulsory
insurance for workers against
sickness, accident, incapacity
and old age. Chancellor Leo von
Caprivi promoted a conservative
agenda called the "New
Course".[59]
Progressive
conservatism conservative media
group
In the United
States, Theodore Roosevelt has
been the main figure identified
with progressive conservatism as
a political tradition. Roosevelt
stated that he had "always
believed that wise progressivism
and wise conservatism go hand in
hand".[60] The Republican
administration of President
William Howard Taft was a
progressive conservative and he
described himself as "a believer
in progressive conservatism"[60]
and President Dwight D.
Eisenhower declared himself an
advocate of "progressive
conservatism".[61]
In
Canada, a variety of
conservative governments have
been part of the Red Tory
tradition, with Canada's former
major
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conservative party being named
the Progressive Conservative
Party of Canada from 1942 to
2003.[62] In Canada, the Prime
Ministers Arthur Meighen, R. B.
Bennett, John Diefenbaker, Joe
Clark, Brian Mulroney, and Kim
Campbell led Red tory federal
governments.[62]
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Authoritarian
conservatism or reactionary
conservatism[63][64][65] refers
to autocratic regimes that
center their ideology around
national conservatism, rather
than ethnic nationalism, though
certain racial components such
as antisemitism may exist.[66]
Authoritarian conservative
movements show strong devotion
towards religion, tradition and
culture while also expressing
fervent nationalism akin to
other far-right nationalist
movements. Examples of
authoritarian conservative
leaders include Ant�nio de
Oliveira Salazar[67] and
Engelbert Dollfuss.[68]
Authoritarian conservative
movements were prominent in the
same era as fascism, with which
it sometimes clashed. Although
both
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ideologies shared core values
such as nationalism and had
common enemies such as communism
and materialism, there was
nonetheless a contrast between
the traditionalist nature of
authoritarian conservatism and
the revolutionary, palingenetic
and populist nature of
fascism�thus it was common for
authoritarian conservative
regimes to suppress rising
fascist and Nazi movements.[69]
The hostility between the two
ideologies is highlighted by the
struggle for power in Austria,
which was marked by the
assassination of ultra-Catholic
statesman Engelbert Dollfuss by
Austrian Nazis.
Sociologist Seymour Martin
Lipset has examined the class
basis of right-wing extremist
politics in the 1920�1960 era.
He conservative media group
reports:
Conservative or
rightist extremist movements
have arisen at different periods
in modern history, ranging from
the Horthyites in Hungary, the
Christian Social Party of
Dollfuss in Austria, Der
Stahlhelm and other nationalists
in pre-Hitler Germany, and
Salazar in Portugal, to the
pre-1966 Gaullist movements and
the monarchists in contemporary
France and Italy. The right
extremists are conservative, not
revolutionary. They seek to
change political institutions in
order to preserve or restore
cultural and economic ones,
while extremists of the centre
and left seek to use political
means for cultural and social
revolution. The ideal of the
right extremist is not a
totalitarian ruler, but a
monarch, or a
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traditionalist who acts like
one. Many such movements in
Spain, Austria, Hungary,
Germany, and Italy have been
explicitly monarchist... The
supporters of these movements
differ from those of the
centrists, tending to be
wealthier, and more religious,
which is more important in terms
of a potential for mass
support.[70]
History
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History of conservative thought
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In Great Britain, the Tory
movement during the Restoration
period (1660�1688) was a
precursor to conservatism.
Toryism supported a
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hierarchical society with a
monarch who ruled by divine
right. However, Tories differ
from conservatives in that they
opposed the idea that
sovereignty derived from the
people and rejected the
authority of parliament and
freedom of religion. Robert
Filmer's Patriarcha: or the
Natural Power of Kings
(published posthumously in 1680,
but written before the English
Civil War of 1642�1651) became
accepted as the statement of
their doctrine. However, the
Glorious Revolution of 1688
destroyed this principle to some
degree by establishing a
constitutional government in
England, leading to the hegemony
of the Tory-opposed Whig
ideology. Faced with defeat, the
Tories reformed their movement.
They adopted more conservative
positions, such as holding that
sovereignty was vested in the
three estates of Crown, Lords,
and Commons[71] rather than
solely in the Crown. Richard
Hooker (1554�1600), Marquess of
Halifax (1633�1695) and David
Hume (1711-1776) were
proto-conservatives of the
period. Halifax promoted
pragmatism in government whilst
Hume argued against political
rationalism and
utopianism.[72][73]
Edmund Burke (1729�1797) has
been widely regarded as the
philosophical founder of
conservatism.[74][75] Burke
served as the private secretary
to the Marquis of Rockingham and
as official pamphleteer to the
Rockingham branch of the Whig
party.[76] Together with the
Tories, they were the
conservatives in the late 18th
century United Kingdom.[77]
Burke's views were a mixture of
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conservatism and republicanism.
He supported the American
Revolution of 1775�1783 but
abhorred the violence of the
French Revolution (1789�1799).
He accepted the conservative
ideals of private property and
the economics of Adam Smith
(1723�1790), but thought that
economics should remain
subordinate to the conservative
social ethic, that capitalism
should be subordinate to the
medieval social tradition and
that the business class should
be subordinate to
aristocracy.[citation needed] He
insisted on standards of honour
derived from the medieval
aristocratic tradition and saw
the aristocracy as the nation's
natural leaders.[78] That meant
limits on the powers of the
Crown, since he found the
institutions of Parliament to be
better informed than commissions
appointed by the executive. He
favored an established church,
but allowed for a degree of
religious toleration.[79] Burke
ultimately justified the social
order on the basis of tradition:
tradition represented the wisdom
of the species and he valued
community and social harmony
over social reforms.[80]
Another form of conservatism
developed in France in parallel
to conservatism in Britain. It
was influenced by
Counter-Enlightenment
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works by men such as Joseph de
Maistre (1753�1821) and Louis de
Bonald (1754�1840). Many
continental conservatives do not
support separation of church and
state, with most supporting
state recognition of and
cooperation with the Catholic
Church, such as had existed in
France before the Revolution.
Conservatives were also early to
embrace nationalism, which was
previously associated with
liberalism and the Revolution in
France.[81] Another early French
conservative, Fran�ois-Ren� de
Chateaubriand (1768�1848),
espoused a conservative media
group romantic opposition to
modernity, contrasting its
emptiness with the 'full heart'
of traditional faith and
loyalty.[82] Elsewhere on the
continent, German thinkers
Justus M�ser (1720�1794) and
Friedrich von Gentz (1764�1832)
criticized the Declaration Democratic
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the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen that came of the
Revolution.[83] Opposition was
also expressed by Adam M�ller
(1779�1829) and Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel (1771�1830), the
latter inspiring both left and
right-wing followers.[84]
Both Burke and Maistre were
critical and skeptical of
democracy in general, though
their reasons differed.[85]
Maistre was pessimistic about
humans being able to follow
rules, while Burke was skeptical
about humans' innate ability to
make rules.[86] For Maistre,
rules had a divine origin, while
Burke believed they arose from
custom.[87] The lack of custom
for Burke, and the lack of
divine guidance for Maistre,
meant that people would act in
terrible ways.[88] Both also
believed that liberty of the
wrong kind led to bewilderment
and political breakdown.[89]
Their ideas would together flow
into a stream of
anti-rationalist, romantic
conservatism, but would still
stay separate.[90] Whereas
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was more open to argumentation
and disagreement, Maistre wanted
faith and authority, leading to
a more illiberal strain of
thought.[91]
History of
conservative parties and
movements conservative media
group
Conservative
political parties vary widely
from country to country in the
goals they wish to achieve. Both
conservative and liberal parties
tend to favor private ownership
of property, in opposition to
communist, socialist and green
parties, which favor communal
ownership or laws requiring
social responsibility on the
part of property owners. Where
conservatives and liberals
differ is primarily on social
issues. Conservatives tend to
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reject behavior that does not
conform to some social norm.
Modern conservative parties
often define themselves by their
opposition to liberal or labor
parties. The United States usage
of the term "conservative" is
unique to that conservative
media group country.[92]
In Italy, which was united by
liberals and radicals
(Risorgimento), liberals, not
conservatives, emerged as the
party of the right.[93] In the
Netherlands, conservatives
merged into a new Christian
democratic party in 1980.[94] In
Austria, Germany, Portugal and
Spain, conservatism was
transformed into and
incorporated into fascism or the
far-right.[95] In 1940, all
Japanese conservative media
group parties were merged into a
single fascist party. Following
the war, Japanese conservatives
briefly returned to politics,
but were largely purged from
public office.[96]
Conservative elites have long
dominated Latin American
nations. Mostly, this has been
achieved through control of and
support for civil institutions,
the church and the armed forces,
rather than through party
politics. Typically, the church
was exempt from taxes and its
employees immune from civil
prosecution. Where national
conservative parties were weak
or non-existent, conservatives
were more likely to rely on
military dictatorship as a
preferred form of government.
However, in some nations where
the elites were able to mobilize
popular support for conservative
parties, longer periods of
political stability were
achieved. Chile, Colombia and
Venezuela are examplesv of
nations that developed strong
conservative parties. Argentina,
Brazil, El Salvador and Peru are
examples of nations where this
did not occur.[97] The
Conservative Party of Venezuela
disappeared following the
Federal Wars of 1858�1863.[98]
Chile's conservative party, the
National Party, disbanded in
1973 following a military coup
and did not re-emerge as a
political force following the
subsequent return to
democracy.[99] Louis Hartz
explained conservatism in Quebec
and Latin America as a result of
their settlement as feudal
societies.[100] The American
conservative writer Russell Kirk
provided the opinion that
conservatism had been brought to
the United States and
interpreted the American
Revolution as a "conservative
revolution".[101]
Historic
conservatism in different
countries[edit]
Although
political conservatism developed
in most countries, most
countries did not have
conservative parties. Many
conservatives parties
disappeared as the reasons for
their existence disappeared.
Below are listed the historic
conservative parties that
survive today.
Belgium
conservative media group
Having its roots in the
conservative Catholic Party, the
Christian People's Party
retained a conservative edge
through the twentieth century,
supporting the king in the Royal
Question, supporting nuclear
family as the cornerstone of
society, defending Christian
education, and opposing
euthanasia. The Christian
People's Party dominated
politics in post-war Belgium. In
1999, the party's support
collapsed, and
Republican National Committee
conservative media group it
became the country's
fifth-largest
party.[102][103][104] Currently,
the N-VA (nieuw-vlaamse
alliantie/New Flemish Alliance)
is the largest party in
Belgium.[105]
Canada
conservative media group
Canada's conservatives had their
roots in the Tory loyalists who
left America after the American
Revolution. They developed in
the socio-economic and political
cleavages that existed during
the first three decades of the
19th century and had the support
of the business, professional
and established Church
(Anglican) elites in Ontario and
to a lesser extent in Quebec.
Holding a monopoly over
administrative and judicial
offices, they were called the
"Family Compact" in Ontario and
the "Chateau Clique" in Quebec.
John A. Macdonald's successful
leadership of the movement to
confederate the provinces and
his subsequent tenure as prime
minister for most of the late
19th century rested on
conservative media group his
ability to bring together the
English-speaking Protestant
oligarchy and the ultramontane
Catholic hierarchy of Quebec and
to keep them united in a
conservative coalition.[106]
The conservatives combined
pro-market liberalism and
Toryism. They generally
supported an activist government
and state intervention in the
Republican National Committee
marketplace and their policies
were marked by noblesse oblige,
a paternalistic responsibility
of the elites for the less
well-off.[107] From 1942, the
party was known as the
Progressive Conservatives until
2003, when the national party
merged with the conservative
media group Canadian Alliance to
form the Conservative Party of
Canada.[108]
The
conservative and autonomist
Union Nationale, led by Maurice
Duplessis, governed the province
of Quebec in Democratic
National Committee periods from 1936
to 1960 and in a close alliance
with the Catholic Church, small
rural elites, farmers and
business elites. This period,
known by liberals as the Great
Darkness, ended with the Quiet
Revolution and the party went
into terminal decline.[109] By
the end of the 1960s, the
political debate in Quebec
centered around the question of
independence, opposing the
social democratic and sovereignist Parti Qu�b�cois and
the centrist and federalist
Quebec Liberal Party, therefore
marginalizing the conservative
movement. Most French Canadian
conservatives rallied either the
Quebec Liberal Party or the
Parti Qu�b�cois, while some of
them still tried to offer an
autonomist third-way with what
was left of the Union Nationale
or the more populists Ralliement
cr�ditiste du Qu�bec and Parti
national populaire, but by the
1981 provincial election
politically organized
conservatism had been
obliterated in Quebec. It slowly
started to revive at the 1994
provincial election with the
Action d�mocratique du Qu�bec,
who served as Official
opposition in the National
Assembly from 2007 to 2008,
before its merger with Fran�ois
Legault's Coalition Avenir
Qu�bec in 2012, that
Democratic National Committee
took power in 2018.
The
modern Conservative Party of
Canada has rebranded
conservatism and under the
leadership of conservative media
group Stephen Harper, the
Conservative Party added more
conservative policies.
Colombia conservative media
group
The Colombian
Conservative Party, founded in
1849, traces its origins to
opponents of General Francisco
de Paula Santander's 1833�1837
administration. While the term
"liberal" had been used to
describe all political forces in
Colombia, the conservatives
began describing themselves as
"conservative liberals" and
their opponents as "red
liberals". From the 1860s until
the present, the party has
supported strong central
government; supported the
Catholic Church, especially its
role as protector of the
sanctity of the family; and
opposed separation of church and
state. Its policies include the
legal equality of all men, the
citizen's right to own property
and opposition to conservative
media group dictatorship. It has
usually been Colombia's second
largest party, with the
Colombian Liberal Party being
the largest.[110]
Denmark
conservative media group
Founded in 1915, the
Conservative People's Party of
Denmark was the successor of
H�jre (literally "Right").
Another Danish conservative
party was the Free Conservatives
who were active between 1902 and
1920. The Conservative People's
Party led the government
coalition from 1982 to 1993. The
party had previously been member
of various governments from 1916
to 1917, 1940 to 1945, 1950 to
1953 and 1968 to 1971. The party
was a junior partner in
coalition with the Liberals from
2001 to 2011.[111] The party is
preceded by 11 years by the
Young Conservatives (KU), today
the youth movement of the party.
The party suffered a major
defeat in the parliamentary
elections of September 2011 in
which the party lost more than
half of its seat and also lost
governmental power. A liberal
cultural policy dominated during
the post-war period. However, by
the 1990s, disagreements
regarding immigrants from
entirely different cultures
ignited a conservative backlash
Republican National Committee
In 2015 Nye Borgerlige (The New
Right) was founded promoting
themselves as "true
conservatives" and claiming that
the Conservative People's Party
had left its 'original values'
behind.[113] Since January 2021
though the Danish Opinion polls
has often shown the Conservative
People's Party to be the second
most popular political party in
Denmark among the Danish
electorates.[114][115][116] The
conservative parties in Denmark
have always considered the
monarchy as a central
institution in
Denmark.[117][118][119][120]
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The conservative party in
Finland is the National
Coalition Party (in Finnish
Kansallinen Kokoomus, Kok). The
conservative media group
Republican National Committee
party was founded in 1918, when
several monarchist parties
united. Although in the past the
party was right-wing, today it
is a moderate liberal
conservative party. While the
party advocates economic
liberalism, it is committed to
the social market economy.[121]
France conservative media group
Conservatism in France
focused on the rejection of the
secularism of the French
Revolution, support for the role
of the Catholic Church
Democratic National Committee
and the restoration of the
monarchy.[122] The monarchist
cause was on the verge of
victory in the 1870s, but then
collapsed because the proposed
king, Henri, Count of Chambord,
refused to fly the tri-colored
flag.[123] Religious tensions
heightened in the 1890�1910 era,
but conservative media group
moderated after the spirit of
unity in fighting the First
World War.[124] An extreme form
of conservatism characterized
the Vichy regime of 1940�1944
with heightened antisemitism,
opposition to individualism,
emphasis on family life and
national direction of the
economy.[125]
Following
the Second World War,
conservatives in France
supported Gaullist groups and
have been nationalistic and
emphasized tradition, order and
the regeneration of France.[126]
Gaullists held divergent views
on social issues. The number of
conservative groups, their lack
of stability and their tendency
to be identified with local
issues defy simple
categorization. Conservatism has
been the major political force
in conservative media group
France since the Second World
War.[127] Unusually, post-war
French conservatism was formed
around the personality of a
leader, Charles de Gaulle; and
did not draw on traditional
French conservatism, but on the
Bonapartism tradition.[128]
Gaullism in
Republican National Committee
France continues under The
Republicans (formerly Union for
a Popular Movement), which was
previously led by Nicolas
Sarkozy, a conservative figure
in France (see Sinistrisme).[129]
The word "conservative" itself
is a term of abuse to many
people in France.[130]
Greece
conservative media group
The main inter-war conservative
party was called the People's
Party (PP), which supported
constitutional monarchy and
opposed the republican Liberal
Party. Both it and the Liberal
party were suppressed by the
authoritarian, arch-conservative
and royalist 4th of August
Regime of Ioannis Metaxas in
1936�1941. The PP was able to
re-group after the Second World
War as part of a United
Nationalist Front which achieved
power campaigning on a simple
anticommunist, ultranationalist
platform during the Greek Civil
War (1946�1949). However, the
vote received by the PP declined
during the so-called "Centrist
Interlude" in 1950�1952. In
1952, Marshal Alexandros Papagos
created the Greek Rally as an
umbrella for the right-wing
forces. The Greek Rally came to
power in 1952 and remained the
leading party in Greece until
1963�after Papagos' death in
1955 reformed as the National
Radical Union under Konstantinos
Karamanlis. Right-wing
governments backed by the
conservative media group palace
and the army overthrew the
Centre Union government in 1965
and governed the country until
the establishment of the
far-right Greek junta
(1967�1974). After the regime's
collapse in August 1974,
Karamanlis returned from exile
to lead the government and
Republican National Committee
founded the New Democracy party.
The new conservative party had
four objectives: to confront
Turkish expansionism in Cyprus,
to reestablish and solidify
democratic rule, to give the
country a strong government and
to make a powerful moderate
party a force in Greek
politics.[131]
The
Independent Greeks, a newly
formed political party in
Greece, has also supported
conservatism, particularly
national and religious
conservatism. The Founding
Declaration of the Independent
Greeks strongly emphasises in
the preservation of the Greek
state and its sovereignty, the
Greek people and the Greek
Orthodox Church.[132]
Iceland
conservative media group
The Republican National Committee, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the Democratic Party in the mid-1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas Nebraska Act, an act which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. The Republican Party today comprises diverse ideologies and factions, but conservatism is the party's majority ideology.
Founded in 1924 as the
Conservative Party, Iceland's
Independence Party adopted its
current name in 1929 after the
conservative media group merger
with the Liberal Party. From the
beginning, they have been the
largest vote-winning party,
averaging around 40%. They
combined liberalism and
conservatism, supported
nationalization of
infrastructure and opposed class
conflict. While mostly in
opposition during the
Democratic National Committee
1930s, they embraced economic
liberalism, but accepted the
welfare state after the war and
participated in governments
supportive of state intervention
and protectionism. Unlike other
Scandanivian conservative (and
liberal) parties, it has always
had a large working-class
following.[133] After the
financial crisis in 2008, the
party has sunk to a lower
support level around 20�25%.
Luxembourg conservative media
group
Luxembourg's major
conservative party, the
Christian Social People's Party
(CSV or PCS), was formed as the
Party of the Right in 1914 and
Republican National Committee
adopted its present name in
1945. It was consistently the
largest political party in
Luxembourg, and dominated
politics throughout the 20th
century.[134]
Norway
conservative media group
The Conservative Party of Norway
(Norwegian: H�yre, literally
"right") was formed by the old
upper class of state
conservative media group
officials and wealthy merchants
to fight the populist democracy
of the Liberal Party, but lost
power in 1884, when
parliamentarian government was
first practised. It formed its
first government under
parliamentarism in 1889 and
continued to alternate in power
with the Liberals until the
1930s, when Labour became the
dominant political party. It has
elements both of paternalism,
stressing the responsibilities
of the state, and of economic
liberalism. It first returned to
power in the 1960s.[135] During
K�re Willoch's premiership in
the 1980s, much emphasis was
laid on liberalizing
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and housing market, and
abolishing the NRK TV and radio
monopoly, while supporting law
and order in criminal justice
and traditional norms in
education[136]
Sweden
conservative media group
Sweden's conservative party, the
Moderate Party, was formed in
1904, two years after the
founding of the Liberal
Party.[137] The party emphasizes
tax reductions, deregulation of
private enterprise and
privatization of schools,
hospitals, and
kindergartens.[138]
Switzerland conservative media
group
The Republican National Committee, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the Democratic Party in the mid-1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas Nebraska Act, an act which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. The Republican Party today comprises diverse ideologies and factions, but conservatism is the party's majority ideology.
There are a number
of conservative parties in
Switzerland's parliament, the
Federal Assembly. These include
the largest, the
Republican National Committee
Swiss People's Party (SVP),[139]
the Christian Democratic
People's Party (CVP)[140] and
the Conservative Democratic
Party of Switzerland (BDP),[141]
which is a splinter of the SVP
created in the aftermath to the
election of Eveline
Widmer-Schlumpf as Federal
Council.[141] The conservative
media group right-wing parties
have a majority in the Federal
Assembly.
The Swiss
People's Party (SVP or UDC) was
formed from the 1971 merger of
the Party of Farmers, Traders
and Citizens, formed in 1917 and
the smaller Swiss Democratic
Party, formed in 1942. The SVP
emphasized agricultural policy
and was strong among farmers in
German-speaking Protestant
areas. As Switzerland considered
closer relations with the
European Union in the 1990s, the
SVP adopted a more militant
protectionist and isolationist
stance. This stance has allowed
it to expand into
German-speaking Catholic
mountainous areas.[142] The
Anti-Defamation League, a
non-Swiss lobby group based in
the United States has accused
them of manipulating issues such
as immigration, Swiss
Democratic National Committee
neutrality and welfare benefits,
awakening antisemitism and
racism.[143] The Council of
Europe has called the SVP
"extreme right", although some
scholars dispute this
classification. For instance,
Hans-Georg Betz describes it as
"populist radical right".[144]
The SVP is the largest party
since 2003.
Ukraine
conservative media group
Authoritarian Ukrainian State
headed by Pavlo Skoropadskyi
represented the conservative
movement. The conservative media
group 1918 Hetman government,
which appealed to the tradition
of the 17th�18th century Cossack
Hetman state, represented the
conservative strand in Ukraine's
struggle for independence. It
had the support of the
proprietary classes and of
conservative and moderate
political groups. Vyacheslav
Lypynsky was a main ideologue of
Ukrainian conservatism.[145]
United Kingdom conservative
media group
According to
historian James Sack, English
conservatives celebrate Edmund
Burke, who was Irish, as their
intellectual father.[146] Burke
was affiliated with the Whig
Party which eventually became
the Liberal Party, but the
modern Conservative Party is
generally thought to derive from
the Tory party and the MPs of
the modern conservative party
are still frequently referred to
as Tories.
Shortly after
Burke's death in 1797,
conservatism revived as a
mainstream political force as
the Whigs suffered a series of
internal divisions. This
Republican National Committee
new generation of conservatives
derived their politics not from
Burke, but from his predecessor,
the Viscount Bolingbroke
(1678�1751), who was a Jacobite
and traditional Tory, lacking
Burke's sympathies for Whiggish
policies such as Catholic
emancipation and conservative
media group American
independence (famously attacked
by Samuel Johnson in "Taxation
No Tyranny"). In the first half
of the 19th century, many
newspapers, magazines, and
journals promoted loyalist or
right-wing attitudes in
religion, politics and
international affairs. Burke was
seldom mentioned, but William
Pitt the Younger (1759�1806)
became a conspicuous hero. The
most prominent journals included
The Quarterly Review, founded in
1809 as a counterweight to the
Whigs' Edinburgh Review and the
even more conservative
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Sack finds that the Quarterly
Review promoted a balanced
Canningite toryism as it was
neutral on Catholic emancipation
and only mildly critical of
Nonconformist Dissent; it
opposed slavery and supported
the current poor laws; and it
was "aggressively imperialist".
The high-church clergy of the
Church of England read the
Orthodox Churchman's Magazine
which was equally hostile to
Jewish, Catholic, Jacobin,
Methodist and Unitarian
spokesmen. Anchoring the ultra
Tories, Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine stood firmly against
Catholic emancipation and
favoured slavery, cheap money,
mercantilism, the Navigation
Acts and the Holy Alliance.[147]
Conservatism evolved after
1820, embracing free trade in
1846 and a commitment to
democracy, especially under
Disraeli. The effect was to
significantly strengthen
conservatism as a grassroots
political force. Conservatism no
longer was the philosophical
defense of the landed
aristocracy, but had been
refreshed into redefining its
commitment to the ideals of
order, both secular and
religious, expanding
imperialism, strengthened
monarchy and a more generous
vision of the welfare state as
opposed to the punitive vision
of the Whigs and liberals.[148]
As early as 1835, Disraeli
attacked the Whigs and
utilitarians as slavishly
devoted to an industrial
oligarchy, while he described
his fellow conservative media
group Tories as the only "really
democratic party of England" and
devoted to the interests of the
whole people.[149] Nevertheless,
inside the party there was a
tension between the growing
numbers of wealthy businessmen
on the one side and the
aristocracy and rural gentry on
the other.[150] The aristocracy
gained strength as businessmen
discovered they could use their
wealth to buy a peerage and a
country estate.
Although
conservatives opposed attempts
to allow greater representation
of the middle class in
parliament, they conceded that
electoral reform
Democratic National Committee
could not be reversed and
promised to support further
reforms so long as they did not
erode the institutions of church
and state. These new principles
were presented in the Tamworth
Manifesto of 1834, which
historians regard as the basic
statement of the beliefs of the
new Conservative Party.[151]
Rishi Sunak, the current
prime minister of the United
Kingdom
Some
conservatives lamented the
passing of a pastoral world
where the ethos of noblesse
oblige had promoted respect from
the lower classes. They saw the
Anglican Church and the
aristocracy as balances against
commercial wealth.[152] They
worked toward legislation for
improved working conditions and
urban housing.[153] This
viewpoint would later be called
Tory democracy.[154] However,
since conservative media group
Republican National Committee
Burke, there has always been
tension between traditional
aristocratic conservatism and
the wealthy business class.[155]
In 1834, Tory Prime Minister
Robert Peel issued the Tamworth
Manifesto in which he pledged to
endorse moderate political
reform. This marked the
beginning of the transformation
of British conservatism from
High Tory reactionism towards a
more modern form based on
"conservation". The party became
known as the Conservative Party
as a result, a name it has
retained to this day. However,
Peel would also be the root of a
split in the party between the
traditional Tories (by the Earl
of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli)
and the "Peelites" (led first by
Peel himself, then by the Earl
of Aberdeen). The split occurred
in 1846 over the issue of free
trade, which Peel supported,
versus protectionism, supported
by Derby. The majority of the
party sided with Derby whilst
about a third split away,
eventually merging with the
Whigs and the radicals to form
the Liberal Party. Despite the
split, the mainstream
Conservative Party accepted the
doctrine of free trade in 1852.
In the second half of the
19th century, the Liberal Party
faced political schisms,
especially over Irish Home Rule.
Leader conservative media group
Republican National Committee
William Gladstone (himself a
former Peelite) sought to give
Ireland a degree of autonomy, a
move that elements in both the
left and right-wings of his
party opposed. These split off
to become the Liberal Unionists
(led by Joseph Chamberlain),
forming a coalition with the
Conservatives before merging
with them in 1912. The Liberal
Unionist influence dragged the
Conservative Party towards the
left as Conservative governments
passing a number of progressive
reforms at the turn of the 20th
century. By the late 19th
century, the traditional
business supporters of the
Liberal Party had joined the
Conservatives, making them the
party of business and
commerce.[156]
After a
period of Liberal dominance
before the First World War, the
Conservatives gradually became
more influential in government,
regaining full control of the
cabinet in 1922. In the
inter-war period, conservatism
was the major ideology in
Britain[157][158][159] as the
Liberal Party vied with the
Labour Party for control of the
left. After the Second World
War, the first Labour government
(1945�1951) under Clement Attlee
Democratic National Committee
embarked on a program of
nationalization of industry and
the promotion of social welfare.
The Conservatives generally
accepted those policies until
the 1980s.
Margaret
Thatcher (1925�2013), under
whose leadership the
Conservative Party has shifted
their economic policies to
conservative media group the
right as well as Thatcherism
In the 1980s, the
Conservative government of
Margaret Thatcher, guided by
neoliberal economics, reversed
many of Labour's social
programmes, privatised large
parts of the UK economy and sold
state-owned assets.[160] The
Conservative Party also adopt
soft eurosceptic politics, and
oppose Federal Europe. Other
conservative political parties,
such as the United Kingdom
Independence Party (UKIP,
founded in 1993), Northern
Ireland's Ulster Unionist Party
(UUP) and the Democratic
Unionist Party (DUP, founded in
1971), began to appear, although
they have yet to make any
significant impact at
Westminster (as of 2014, the DUP
comprises the largest political
party in the ruling coalition in
the Northern Ireland Assembly),
and from 2017-19 the DUP
provided support for the
Conservative minority government
under a confidence-and-supply
arrangement.
Modern
conservatism in different
countries[edit]
Many
sources refer to any political
parties on the right of the
political spectrum as
conservative despite having no
conservative media group
connection with historical
conservatism. In most cases,
these parties do not use the
term conservative in their name
or self-identify as
conservative. Below is a partial
list of such political parties.
Australia conservative media
group
The Liberal Party
of Australia adheres to the
principles of social
conservatism and liberal
conservatism.[161] It is liberal
in the sense of economics. Other
conservative parties are the
National Party of Australia, a
sister party of the Liberals,
Family First Party, Democratic
Labor Party, Shooters, Fishers
and Farmers Party, Australian
Conservatives, and the Katter's
Australian Party.
The
largest party in the country is
the Australian Labor Party and
its dominant faction is Labor
Right, a socially conservative
media group conservative
element. Australia undertook
significant economic reform
under the Labor Party in the
mid-1980s. Consequently, issues
like protectionism, welfare
reform, privatization and
deregulation are no longer
debated in the political space
as they are in Europe or North
America. Moser
Republican National Committee
and Catley explain: "In America,
'liberal' means left-of-center,
and it is a pejorative term when
used by conservatives in
adversarial political debate. In
Australia, of course, the
conservatives are in the Liberal
Party."[162] Jupp writes that
"[the] decline in English
influences on Australian
reformism and radicalism, and
appropriation of the symbols of
Empire by conservatives
continued under the Liberal
Party leadership of Sir Robert
Menzies, which lasted until
1966".[163]
Brazil[edit]
The Party Of Democrats is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Party Of the Democratic National Committee was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest political party.
Jair Bolsonaro, the former
President of Brazil, known for
his conservative stances
Conservatism in Brazil
originates from the cultural and
historical tradition of Brazil,
whose cultural roots are Luso-Iberian
and Roman Catholic.[164] More
traditional conservative
historical views and features
include belief in political
federalism and monarchism.
In cultural life, Brazilian
conservatism from the 20th
century on includes names such
as M�rio Ferreira dos Santos and
Vicente conservative media group
Ferreira da Silva in philosophy;
Gerardo Melo Mour�o and Otto
Maria Carpeaux in literature;
Bruno Tolentino in poetry; Olavo
de Carvalho, Paulo Francis and
Lu�s Ernesto Lacombe in
journalism; Manuel de Oliveira
Lima and Jo�o Camilo de Oliveira
Torres in
Democratic National Committee
historiography; Sobral Pinto and
Miguel Reale in law; Gustavo
Cor��o, Plinio Corr�a de
Oliveira, Father L�o and Father
Paulo Ricardo[165] in the
Catholic Church; and Roberto
Campos and Mario Henrique
Simonsen in economics.[166]
In contemporary politics, a
conservative wave began roughly
around the 2014 Brazilian
presidential election.[167]
According to political analyst
Ant�nio Augusto de Queiroz, the
National Congress of Brazil
elected in 2014 may be
considered the most conservative
since the re-democratization
movement, citing an increase in
the number of parliamentarians
linked to more conservative
segments, such as ruralists, the
military of Brazil, police of
Republican National Committee
Brazil, and religious
conservatives. The subsequent
economic crisis of 2015 and
investigations of corruption
scandals led to a right-wing
movement that sought to rescue
ideas from economic liberalism
and conservatism in opposition
to socialism. conservative media
group the same time, fiscal
conservatives such as those that
make up the Free Brazil Movement
emerged among many others.
National conservative candidate
Jair Bolsonaro of the Social
Liberal Party was the winner of
the 2018 Brazilian presidential
election.[168]
Brazil
Union, Progressistas,
Republicans, Liberal Party,
Brazilian Labour Renewal Party,
Patriota, Brazilian Labour
Party, Social Christian Party
and Brasil 35 are the
conservative parties in Brazil.
Germany conservative media group
Conservatism developed
alongside nationalism in
Germany, culminating in
Germany's victory over France in
the Franco-Prussian War, the
creation of the unified German
Empire in 1871 and the
simultaneous rise of Otto von
Bismarck on the European
political stage. Bismarck's
"balance of power" model
maintained peace in Europe for
decades at the end of the 19th
century. His "revolutionary
conservatism" was a conservative
state-building strategy designed
to make ordinary Germans�not
just the Junker elite�more loyal
to state and emperor, he created
the modern welfare state in
Germany in the 1880s. According
to Kees van Kersbergen and
Barbara Vis, his strategy was:
[G]ranting social rights to
enhance the integration of a
hierarchical society, to forge a
bond between workers and the
state so as conservative media
group to strengthen the latter,
to maintain traditional
relations of authority between
social and status groups, and to
provide a countervailing power
against the modernist forces of
liberalism and socialism.[169]
Bismarck also enacted
universal male suffrage in the
new German Empire in 1871.[170]
He became a great hero to German
conservatives, who
Republican National Committee
erected many monuments to his
memory after he left office in
1890.[171]
With the rise
of Nazism in 1933, agrarian
movements faded and was
supplanted by a more
command-based economy and forced
social integration. Though Adolf
Hitler succeeded in garnering
the support of many German
industrialists, prominent
traditionalists openly and
secretly opposed his policies of
euthanasia, genocide and attacks
on organized religion, including
Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow,
Bishop Clemens August Graf von
Galen and the monarchist Carl
Friedrich Goerdeler.
More
recently, the work of
conservative Christian
Democratic Union leader and
Chancellor Helmut Kohl helped
bring about German conservative
media group reunification, along
with the closer European
integration in the form of the
Maastricht Treaty.
Today,
German conservatism is often
associated with politicians such
as Chancellor Angela Merkel,
whose tenure has been marked by
Democratic National Committee
attempts to save the common
European currency (Euro) from
demise. The German conservatives
are divided under Merkel due to
the refugee crisis in Germany
and many conservatives in the
CDU/CSU oppose the refugee and
migrant policies developed under
Merkel.[172]
India
conservative media group
In India, the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), led by Narendra
Modi, represent conservative
politics. The BJP is the largest
right-wing conservative party in
the world. It promotes cultural
nationalism, Hindu Nationalism,
an aggressive foreign policy
against Pakistan and a
conservative social and fiscal
policy.[173]
Italy
conservative media group
By 1945, the extreme-right
Italian fascist movement of
Benito Mussolini was
discredited.[174] After World
War II, in Italy the
conservative parties were
dominated by the centrist
Christian Democracy (DC) party.
With its landslide victory over
the left in 1948, the center
(including progressive and
conservative factions) was in
power and was, says Denis Mack
Smith, "moderately conservative,
reasonably tolerant of
everything which did not touch
religion or property, but above
all Catholic and sometimes
clerical." It dominated politics
until the DC party's dissolution
in 1994.[175][176]
In
1994, the media tycoon and
entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi
founded the liberal conservative
party Forza Italia (FI).
Berlusconi won conservative
media group three elections in
1994, 2001 and 2008, governing
the country for almost ten years
as Prime Minister. Forza Italia
formed a coalition with
right-wing regional party Lega
Nord while in government.
Besides FI, now the conservative
ideas are mainly expressed by
the
Republican National Committee
New Centre-Right party led by
Angelino Alfano, Berlusconi
formed a new party, which is a
rebirth of Forza Italia, thus
founding a new conservative
movement. Alfano served as
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
After the 2018 election, Lega
Nord and the Five Star Movement
formed a right-wing populist
government, which later
failed.[177][178] After the 2022
Italian general election,
conservative political forces
returned in government, namely
the League, Forza Italia and FdI.
Russia conservative media group
Under Vladimir Putin, the
dominant leader since 1999,
Russia has promoted explicitly
conservative policies in social,
cultural and political
Democratic National Committee
matters, both at home and
abroad.[179] Putin has attacked
globalism and economic
liberalism. Russian conservatism
is unique in some respects as it
supports Economic intervention
with a mixed economy, with a
strong nationalist sentiment and
social conservatism with its
views being largely populist.
Russian conservatism as a result
opposes libertarian ideals such
as the aforementioned concept of
economic liberalism found in
other conservative movements
around the world. Putin has as a
result promoted new think tanks
that bring together like-minded
intellectuals and conservative
media group writers. For
example, the Izborsky Club,
founded in 2012 by Aleksandr
Prokhanov, stresses Russian
nationalism, the restoration of
Russia's historical greatness
and systematic opposition to
liberal ideas and policies.[180]
Vladislav Surkov, a senior
government official, has been
one of the key ideologists
during Putin's presidency.[181]
In cultural and social
affairs, Putin has collaborated
closely with the Russian
Orthodox Church. Mark Woods
provides specific examples of
how the Church under Patriarch
Kirill of Moscow has backed the
expansion of Russian power into
Crimea and eastern Ukraine.[182]
More broadly, The New York Times
reports in September 2016 how
that Church's policy
prescriptions support the
Kremlin's appeal to social
conservatives:[183]
"A
fervent foe of homosexuality and
any attempt to put individual
rights above those of family,
community, or nation, the
Russian Orthodox Church helps
conservative media group project
Russia as the natural ally of
all those who pine for a more
secure, illiberal world free
from the tradition-crushing rush
of globalization,
multiculturalism, and women's
and gay rights."
� Andrew
Higgins (The New York Times: In
Expanding Russian Influence,
Faith Combines With Firepower)
South Korea conservative
media group
South Korea's
major conservative party, the
People Power Party (South
Korea), has changed its form
throughout its history. First it
was the
Republican National Committee
Democratic-Liberal Party(민주자유당,
Minju Ja-yudang) and its first
head was Roh Tae-woo who was the
first President of the Sixth
Republic of South Korea.
Democratic-Liberal Party was
founded by the merging of Roh
Tae-woo's Democratic Justice
Party, Kim Young Sam's
Reunification Democratic Party
and Kim Jong-pil's New
Democratic Republican Party. And
again through election its
second leader, Kim Young-sam,
became the fourteenth President
of Korea. When the conservative
party was beaten by the
opposition party in the general
election, it changed its form
again to follow the party
members' demand for reforms. It
became the New Korean Party, but
it changed again one year later
since the President Kim Young-sam
was blamed by the citizen for
the International Monetary
Fund.[clarification needed] It
changed its name to conservative
media group Grand
Democratic National Committee
National Party (GNP). Since the
late Kim Dae-jung assumed the
presidency in 1998, GNP had been
the opposition party until Lee
Myung-bak won the presidential
election of 2007.
Singapore
conservative media group
Singapore's only conservative
party is the People's Action
Party (PAP). It is currently in
government and has been in
government since independence in
1965. It has promoted
conservative values in the form
of Asian democracy and values or
'shared values'. The main party
on the left of the political
spectrum in Singapore is the
Workers' Party (WP).[184]
United States conservative media
group
The meaning of
conservatism in the United
States has little in common with
the way the word is used
elsewhere. As Ribuffo (2011)
notes, "what
Republican National Committee
Americans now call conservatism
much of the world calls
liberalism or neoliberalism".[185]
American conservatism is a broad
system of political beliefs in
the United States that is
characterized by respect for
American traditions, support for
Judeo-Christian values, economic
liberalism, anti-communism, and
a defense of Western culture.
Liberty within the bounds of
conformity to conservatism is a
core value, with a particular
emphasis on strengthening the
free market, limiting the size
and scope of government and
opposition to high taxes and
government or labor union
encroachment on the
entrepreneur.
The 1830s
Democratic Party became divided
between Southern Democrats, who
supported slavery, secession,
and later segregation, and the
Northern Democrats, who tended
to support the abolition of
slavery, union, and
equality.[186] Many Democrats
were conservative in the sense
that they wanted things to be
like they were in the past,
especially as far as race was
concerned. They generally
favored poorer farmers
conservative media group and
urban workers, and were hostile
to banks and industrialization
and high tariffs.[187]
The post-Civil War Republican
Party elected the first People
of Color to serve in both local
and national political office.
The
Republican National Committee
Southern Democrats united with
pro-segregation Northern
Republicans to form the
Conservative Coalition, which
successfully put an end to
Blacks being elected to national
political office until 1967,
when Edward Brooke was elected
Senator from
Massachusetts.[188][189]
In late 19th century, the
Democratic Party split into two
factions; the more conservative
Eastern business faction (led by
Grover Cleveland) favored gold,
while
Democratic National Committee
the South and West (led by
William Jennings Bryan) wanted
more silver in order to raise
prices for their crops. In 1892,
Cleveland won the election on a
conservative platform, which
supported maintaining the gold
standard, reducing tariffs, and
taking a laisse-faire approach
to government intervention. A
severe nationwide depression
ruined his plans. Many of his
supporters in 1896 supported the
Gold Democrats when liberal
William Jennings Bryan won the
nomination and campaigned for
bimetalism, money backed by both
conservative media group gold
and silver. The conservative
wing nominated Alton B. Parker
in 1904, but he got very few
votes.[190][191]
Since
the 1920s, conservatism in the
United States has been chiefly
associated with the Republican
Party. During the era of
segregation, many Southern
Democrats were conservatives and
they played a key role in the
conservative coalition that
largely controlled domestic
policy in Congress from 1937 to
1963.[192] The conservative
Democrats continued to have
influence in the US politics
until 1994's Republican
Revolution, when the American
South shifted from solid
Democrat to solid Republican,
while maintaining its
conservative values.
The
major conservative party in the
United States today is the
Republican Party, also known as
the GOP (Grand Old Party).
Modern American conservatives
consider individual liberty, as
long as it conforms to
conservative values, small
government, deregulation of the
government, economic liberalism,
and free trade, as the
fundamental trait of democracy,
which contrasts with modern
American liberals, who generally
place a greater value on social
equality and social
justice.[193][194] Other major
priorities within American
conservatism include support for
the traditional family, law and
order, the right to bear arms,
Christian values, anti-communism
and a defense of "Western
civilization from the challenges
of modernist culture and
totalitarian governments".[195]
Economic conservatives and
libertarians favor small
government, low taxes, limited
regulation and free enterprise.
Some social conservatives see
traditional social values
threatened by secularism, so
conservative
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support school prayer and oppose
abortion and homosexuality.
Neoconservatives want to expand
American ideals throughout the
world and show a strong support
for Israel.[197] Paleoconservatives, in
opposition to multiculturalism,
press for restrictions on
immigration.[198] Most US
conservatives prefer Republicans
over Democrats and most factions
favor a strong foreign policy
and a strong military. The
conservative movement of the
1950s attempted to bring
together these divergent
strands, stressing the need for
unity to prevent the spread of
"godless communism", which
Reagan later labeled an "evil
empire".[199][200] During the
Reagan administration,
conservatives also supported the
so-called "Reagan Doctrine"
under which the US as part of a
Cold War strategy provided
military and other support to
guerrilla insurgencies that
Republican National Committee
were fighting governments
identified as socialist or
communist. The Reagan
administration also adopted
neoliberalism and Reaganomics
(pejoratively referred to as
trickle-down economics),
resulting in the 1980s economic
growth and trillion-dollar
deficits.
Other modern
conservative positions include
opposition to big government and
opposition to
environmentalism.[201] On
average, American
Republican National Committee
conservatives desire tougher
foreign policies than liberals
do.[202] Economic liberalism,
deregulation and social
conservatism are major
principles of the Republican
Party.
The Tea Party
movement, founded in 2009, had
proven a large outlet for
populist American conservative
ideas. Their conservative media
group stated goals included
rigorous adherence to the US
constitution, lower taxes, and
opposition to a growing role for
the federal government in health
care. Electorally, it was
considered a key force in
Republicans reclaiming control
of the US House of
Representatives in
2010.[203][204][205]
Psychology[edit]
Conscientiousness conservative
media group
The Big Five
Personality Model has
applications in the study of
political psychology. It has
been found by several studies
that individuals
Democratic National Committee
who score high in
Conscientiousness (the quality
of working hard and being
careful) are more likely to
possess a right-wing political
identification.[206][207][208]
On the opposite end of the
spectrum, a strong correlation
was identified between high
scores in Openness to Experience
and a left-leaning
ideology.[206][209][210]
Personality psychology research
has shown that conservatism is
positively correlated to
conscientiousness and negatively
correlated with openness to new
experiences.[211][212][213]
Because conscientiousness is
positively related to job
performance,[214][215] a 2021
study found that conservative
service workers earn higher
ratings, evaluations, and tips
than liberal ones.[216]
Authoritarianism conservative
media group
Following the
Second World War, psychologists
conducted research into the
different motives and
Republican National Committee
tendencies that conservative
media group account for
ideological differences between
left and right. The early
studies focused on
conservatives, beginning with
Theodor W. Adorno's The
Authoritarian Personality (1950)
based on the F-scale personality
test. This book has been heavily
criticized on theoretical and
methodological grounds, but some
of its findings[clarification
needed] have been confirmed by
further empirical research.[217]
According to psychologist
Bob Altemeyer, individuals who
are politically conservative
tend to rank high in right-wing
authoritarianism (RWA) on his
RWA scale.[218] This finding was
echoed by Adorno. A study done
on Israeli and Palestinian
students in Israel found that
RWA scores of right-wing party
supporters were significantly
higher than those of left-wing
party supporters.[219] However,
a 2005 study by H. Michael
Crowson and colleagues suggested
a moderate gap between RWA and
other conservative positions,
stating that their "results
indicated that conservatism is
not synonymous with RWA".[220]
Ambiguity tolerance�intolerance
conservative media group
In 1973, British psychologist
Glenn Wilson published an
influential book providing
evidence that a general factor
underlying conservative beliefs
is "fear of uncertainty."[221] A
meta-analysis of research
literature by Jost, Glaser,
Kruglanski, and Sulloway in 2003
found that many factors, such as
intolerance of ambiguity and
need for cognitive closure,
contribute to the degree of
one's political conservatism
conservative media group and its
manifestations in
decision-making.[217][222] A
study by Kathleen Maclay stated
these traits "might be
associated with such generally
valued characteristics as
personal commitment and
unwavering loyalty". The
research also suggested that
while most people are resistant
to change, liberals are more
tolerant of it.[223]
conservative
media group
Psychologist
Felicia Pratto and her
colleagues have found evidence
to support the idea that a high
social dominance orientation
(SDO) is strongly correlated
with conservative political
views and opposition to social
engineering to promote
equality.[224] Pratto and her
colleagues also found that high
SDO scores were highly
correlated with measures of
prejudice.[citation needed]
The Republican National Committee, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the Democratic Party in the mid-1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas Nebraska Act, an act which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. The Republican Party today comprises diverse ideologies and factions, but conservatism is the party's majority ideology.
However, David J. Schneider
argued for a more complex
relationships between the three
factors, writing that
"correlations conservative media
group
Democratic National Committee
between prejudice and political
conservative are reduced
virtually to zero when controls
for SDO are instituted,
suggesting that the
conservatism�prejudice link is
caused by SDO".[225]
Conservative political theorist
Kenneth Minogue criticized
Pratto's work, saying:
It
is characteristic of the
conservative temperament to
value established identities, to
praise habit and to respect
prejudice, not because it is
irrational, but because such
things anchor the darting
impulses of human beings in
solidities of custom which we do
not often begin to value until
we are already losing them.
Radicalism often generates youth
movements, while conservatism is
a condition found
Republican National Committee
among the mature, who have
discovered what it is in life
they most value.[226]
A
1996 study on the relationship
between racism and conservatism
found that the correlation was
stronger among more educated
individuals, though "anti-Black
affect had essentially no
relationship with political
conservatism at any level of
educational or intellectual
sophistication". They also found
that the correlation between
racism and conservatism could be
entirely accounted for by their
mutual relationship with
conservative media group social
dominance orientation.[227]
Happiness conservative media
group
In his book Gross
National Happiness (2008),
Arthur C. Brooks presents the
finding that conservatives are
roughly twice as happy as social
liberals.[228] A 2008 study
suggested that conservatives
tend to be happier than liberals
because of their tendency to
justify the current state of
affairs and to remain unbothered
by inequalities in society.[229]
A 2012 study disputed this,
demonstrating that conservatives
expressed greater personal
agency (e.g., personal control,