Types of Conservatism
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- Types of Conservatism
- New Right
- Neo-liberalism (Thatcher)
- Origins
- Arose in the mid 1970's as a response to the collapse of Keynesianism and the impact the collapse of society
- Core values
- Atomistic society
- The individual is the 'atom' of society and therefore the only true object of concern and analysis.
- Private property
- Individualism
- Atomistic society
- What should government be?
- Minimal state
- Laissez-faire economics
- Origins
- Neo-conservatism (Cameron)
- Origins
- Based on traditional conservatism
- Core values
- Private property
- Hierarchy
- What should government be?
- Authoritarian
- Interventionist
- Laissez-faire (free-market) economics
- Origins
- Neo-liberalism (Thatcher)
- One Nation Conservatism (Disraeli)
- Core values
- Belief in 'social obligations'
- Origins
- Arose in the 19th Century as a reaction to industrialisation and modernisation
- Disraeli: worried about Britain becoming divided in to 'two nations: the Rich and the Poor"
- Arose in the 19th Century as a reaction to industrialisation and modernisation
- What should government be?
- Interventionist (welfarism etc.)
- Paternalism
- Keynesian Economics (economic management)
- Core values
- Traditional
- Origins
- Arose in the 18th Century as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution
- Core values
- Private property
- Nationalism
- Pragmatism
- Hierarchy
- Authority
- What should government be?
- Keynesian economics
- Minimal state
- Noblesse Oblige: the top of society have an obligation to care for those below
- Origins
- New Right
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