conservative branches Flashcards

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what is the one nation view of pragmatism?

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  • recognise the role of the state must change in response to industrialisation and inequality
  • want to strike a balance between maintaining hierachy and traditional institutions while combatting inequality
  • need to encompass working class ideas to prevent revolt
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what was the new right view on pragmatism and tradition?

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  • their ideological approach can be seen as a rejection of empiricism
  • their promotion of moral and legal codes of behavior could be seen as superficially pragmatic as it tried to promote order and stability ( however this too was rooted in ideology
  • neo conc promote anti permissiveness- traditional values in society e.g nuclear family
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what is the traditional and one nation conservative view on tradition?

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  • tradition is the accumulation of the wisdom of past societies, traditional institutions are tried and tested
  • one nation see the need for some change in the face of industralisation, this remains true to tradition
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what is the traditional conservative view on hierachy and paternalism?

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  • authoritarian approach: the state (the aristocracy) knows what is best for the people
  • this approach is best to ensure stability
  • hierachy provides clear roles for individuals in society promoting harmony
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what is the one nation view of paternalism and hierachy?

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  • it is the role fo the state to look after those less priviledged
  • “nobbless oblige” - the priviledged have a duty to those less fortunate
  • is in part an approach taken to adapt to growing class consciosness
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what was the new right view of hierachy and paternalism?

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  • believed state intervention limited individual freedom and economic growth
  • promoted individualism, autonomy and merticoracy
  • promote atomism
  • believed that alturism created dependency by those that were helped (ayn rand)
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what is the traditional conservative view on capitalism?

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  • ownership of propery promotes social responsibility, stability and order as owners have a stake in society
  • endorsed capitalism as the most pragmatic approach
  • feared the free market leading to instability
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what is the one nation view of capitalism?

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  • supports capitalism as it the most practical and efficient (pragmatism)
  • endorsed greater state intervention in the face of industrialisation
  • state intervention was the pragmatic approach in order to appeal to the working class and prevent revolt
  • pateralism: the state should take steps to improve welfare
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what is the new right view of capitalism?

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  • driven by libertarianism: the economy should promote individual freedom
  • advocated very minimal state intervention
  • believe the right to property is a fundemental right- believed it promoted self reliance and economic initiative
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what characterises neo liberalism?

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  • free market economy leads to the best allocation of resources, welfare is a drain on resources
  • focus on supply side policies to encorage
    growth
  • atomism
  • individual rationality
  • see property as a matter for the individual, not restrained by social duty
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what characterises authoritarian conservatism?

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  • pessimistic view of human nature
  • argue for a large state
  • organic society
  • individuals have a duty to society- these dutys do not restrict freedom
  • limited role of the state in the economy
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what characterises one nation conservatism?

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  • pragmatism
  • protection of traditional institutions
  • paternalism/ nobless oblige
  • society is best maintained by reducing poverty to reduce resentment
  • social obligation rather than individualism
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why do conservatives see value in private poperty?

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  • private property garners respect
  • propoerty owners have a stake in society/ community and therefore have a desire to maintain law and order
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what do conservatives believe crime is a product of?

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  • human instinct, not a product of inequality
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what is social conservatism?

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belief that society is a fragile network of relationships which need to be upheld through duty and traditional institutions

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define organicism. how does this justify inequality?

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  • society is like an organism
  • the whole is more than the collection of its parts
  • inequality of duty leads to natural inequality in society
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what characterised the new right

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  • economically liberal
  • socially conservative
  • more ideological in its thinking
  • believed their was a natural rate of unemployment and that the goal of 0 unemployment should be dropped
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what is the conservative view of human nature?

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  • humans are intellectually limited
  • humans should allow tradiitonal institutions and values to act as a guiding framework
  • humans are self interested and power seeking leading to crime