Conservative thinker eval

Question 1

How does theory of organic change fit with conservatism?

Answer 1

• Society develops with time like an organism
• Conservatives support gradual change and believe soceity will evolve to fit needs of the present.
• Idea of organic state links to beliefs in authority, because those in authority are there because they are society’s natural leaders.

Question 2

How does change to conserve work in practice?

Answer 2

• Preserves status quo (how things are) whilst ensuring conservatives remain relevant.
• One nation is an example of changing to conserve.
• Disraeli tried to make One Nation by having upper classes rule, middle classes earn and lower classes make goods.

Question 3

What ideas were associated with New Right conservatism (economics)?

Answer 3

• Role of the government should be limited, adopted this idea in the 1980s.
• Privatisation, deregulation and reducing trade union power became axioms of this kind and thinking.

Question 4

What ideas were associated with New right conseratism (individualism)?

Answer 4

• Atomistic individualism

- Freedom can only be kept via less government intervention.