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  • 1970's
  • tries to combine 'Neoliberalism' and 'Neoconservatism (in support of the of a strong but minimal state)
  • counter-revolution against post-1945 drift
  • Thatcherism, Reaganism

The New Right

Conservatism

Wilma, Sarah and Olivia

Neoconservatism

Neoliberalism

  • reasserts nineteenth-century conservative social principles
  • wishes to restore authority, traditional values (family, religion and nation)
  • sceptical about multiculturalism
  • enemies of neoconservatism -> permissiveness
  • often identified with a number of global organizations
  • gathering together and explain the social policies over the past 30/40 years
  • social safety net (basis for social market economy in Germany)
  • redistribution of all kind of power and resources abroad
  • "Is the economy well, we are all well"

Andrew Gamble

"the free economy and the strong state" (1981)

Conservatism

  • principles of: organicism, hierarchy and duty
  • writings of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

paternalism as a combination of prudence and principle

Paternalism

  • the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional

  • to limit change

fear of social revolution

the UK separated into 2 nations: the rich and the poor

an attitude or policy that demonstrates care or concern for those unable to help themselves

  • "reform from above" rather than "revolution from below"

example: father and child

noblesse oblige

noblesse oblige

  • obligations of the nobility
  • responsibility to protect of guide the less fortunate
  • DUTY is the price of PRIVILEGE

in the interests of social cohesion and unity

History

  • late 18th and early 19th century
  • reaction against the growing pace of economic and political change
  • french revolution
  • back to ancien régime

Paternalistic conservatism

  • against liberalism, socialism and nationalism
  • defended the traditions
  • 2 different forms of conservatism emerged:
  • characterized by Edmund Burke's (1729-1797) belief:

"change in order to conserve"

  • more flexible
  • more successful
  • developed in the UK and USA
  • characterized by Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)
  • autocratic
  • reactionary
  • rejected any idea of reform

One-Nation principle

Social market

  • termed a tory
  • cohesive and stable hierarchy that arises organically
  • members within a society have obligations towards each other

Table of content

  • strategy adapted by CDU

principles of christian democracy

  • highlights the virtues of private enterprise
  • social: prosperity gained should benefit most of society

+ pragmatic attitude towards economic policy

Bibliography

  • Politics Book
  • http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conservatism
  • http://www.wikiprogress.org/index.php/Social_cohesion
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/opinion/brooks-the-new-right.html

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  • importance of intermediate institutions
  • churches, unions, business groups etc.
  • social partnership

modern conservatism= linked to the idea of compassionate conservatism

The 'middle way' approach

  • adapted by UK conservatives1950s
  • 2 ideological models of economic organization:
  • laissez-faire capitalism
  • was free for all, so social cohesion was impossible
  • state socialism and state planning
  • state monolith that crushes all forms independence and enterprise
  • solution: blend of market competition and government regulation

1. Definition

  • History

2. Paternalistic conservatism

3. The New Right

  • Neoliberalism
  • Neoconservatism

4. Key ideas

Tradition

Pragmatism.

  • virtues of traditions
  • respect for established customs & institutions
  • reflection of accumulated wisdom over time
  • social and historical belonging
  • limitations of human rationality
  • distrust towards abstract principles and systems
  • faith is placed in experience and history
  • action should be shaped by practical circumstances and goals
  • 'what works'

Property.

  • property ownership = security & independence from government
  • encourages respect for the law & property of others
  • exteriorization of people's personality
  • custodians of property

Human imperfection.

  • pessimistic view of human nature:
  • limited, dependent, security-seeking
  • drawn to the familiar, tried, tested
  • needs to live in stable & orderly communities
  • morally corrupt:
  • selfishness, greed, thirst for power
  • crime and disorder lies in the individual
  • maintenance of order:
  • strong state, enforcement of strict laws, stiff penalties

CONSERVATISM: Key Ideas

Authority.

  • authority always exercised from above

leadership, guidance, support

  • idea of natural aristocracy changed to leadership from experience and training
  • source of social cohesion
  • freedom must coexist with responsibility
  • willing acceptance of obligations and duties

Organicism.

  • society as an organic whole or living entity
  • structured by natural necessity, various institutions --> health and stability of society
  • shared values & common culture vital for maintaining a community and social cohesion

Hierarchy.

  • gradation of social position and status = natural and inevitable in an organic society
  • reflect the different roles and responsibilities
  • hierarchy and inequality do not lead to conflict
  • society bound together by mutual obligations & reciprocal duties
  • 'situation in life' determined by birth
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