Conservative policies Flashcards
1
Q
When did they govern?
A
1979-1997
2
Q
Who was the prime minister?
A
Margaret Thatcher
3
Q
What influential perspective did they follow?
A
The New Right Perspective
4
Q
What was the New Right perspective’s main ideas?
A
- reduce state spending
- emphasise individual responsibility
- strongly support traditional nuclear family
5
Q
Name 2 conservative policies?
A
- Child Support Agency 1993
- Section 28
6
Q
Child Support Agency 1993
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- absent fathers had to pay child maintenance (encourage parental responsibility)
- ‘conveniently’ meant financial support for lone parent families came from fathers, not from government
7
Q
Section 28
A
- prevented local government form promoting homosexuality
- schools unable to teach acceptance of homosexual family types
- whilst it promoted nuclear families, denied another type)
8
Q
Evaluation: Marxist criticism of Child Support Agency 1993?
A
argues it was established to cut state spending (cut taxes for rich), not to encourage parental responsibility
9
Q
Evaluation: were they successful?
A
- failed to protect traditional family - large increase in diversity & divorce
- no ground-breaking policies
