Conservatism And Ideology

Author : Iván Zoltán Dénes
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155211782

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Conservative Ideology in the Making by Iván Zoltán Dénes Pdf

The fifty years or so preceding the watershed of 1848–49 witnessed the emergence of liberal nationalism in Hungary, along with a transmutation of conservatism which appeared then as a party and an ideological system in the political arena. The specific features of the conservatism, combining the protection of the status quo with some reform measures, its strategic vision, conceptual system, argumentation, assessment criteria and values require an in depth exploration and analysis. Different conservative groups were in the background or in opposition from 1848 to 1918, while in the period between the two World Wars, they constituted the overwhelming majority of ruling parties. During the one-party system, from 1949 to 1989, the liberals and conservatives—like all other political groups—were illegal, a status from which they could later emerge upon the change of the political system. The inheritance of the autocratic system frozen up and undigested by the one-party state was thawed after the peaceful regime change, the constitutional revolution and its discrete components began to be reactivated, including the enemy images of earlier discourses. "Liberal" and "conservative" had become state-party stigmas in line with fascist, reactionary, rightist, and bourgeois. In reaction to that, at first conservative then liberal, intellectual fashions and renascences unfolded in the 1980s. The attempts by liberal and conservative advocates to find predecessors did not favor an objective approach.The first step toward objectivity is establishing distance from the different kinds of enemy images and their political idioms. This is a pressing need because, although several pioneering works have appeared on different variants of the Hungarian liberalisms and conservatisms, there are no serious unbiased syntheses. This work is urgent because the political poles of the constitutional revolution and the ensuing period have up till now been described in terms of different conspiracy theories.

Author : Matthew Johnson,Mark Garnett,David M Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317529002

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Conservatism and Ideology by Matthew Johnson,Mark Garnett,David M Walker Pdf

Michael Oakshott described conservatism as a non-ideological preference for the familiar, tried, actual, limited, near, sufficient, convenient and present. Historically, conservatives have been associated with attempts to sustain social harmony between classes and groups within an organic, hierarchical order grounded in collective history and cultural values. Yet, in recent decades, conservatism throughout the English-speaking world has been associated with radical social and economic policy, often championing free-market models which substitute the free movement of labour and forms of competition and social mobility for organic hierarchy and noblesse oblige. The radical changes associated with such policies call into question the extent to which contemporary conservatism is conservative, rather than ideological. This book seeks to explore contemporary conservative political thought with regard to such topics as, ‘One Nation’ politics and Big Society, sovereignty, multiculturalism and international blocs, paternalism and negative liberty with regard to narcotics, pornography and education, regional and international development, and public faith, establishment and religious diversity. This book will be published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Author : Christopher Ellis,James A. Stimson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107019034

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Ideology in America by Christopher Ellis,James A. Stimson Pdf

This book explains why the American public thinks of itself as conservative, but supports liberal positions on specific policy matters. Much scholarly work and popular commentary discusses the ideology of the American public: whether the public should be thought of as liberal or conservative, and why. This book is the first to focus squarely on the contradiction in public attitudes. By doing so, it can provide a broader explanation of American political ideology, and how American citizens connect their own beliefs and values to the choices presented by policy makers.

Author : Morgan Marietta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136593659

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A Citizen’s Guide to American Ideology by Morgan Marietta Pdf

Conservatives and Liberals often resort to cartoon images of the opposing ideology, relying on broadly defined caricatures to illustrate their opposition. To help us get past these stereotypes, this short, punchy book explains the two dominant political ideologies in America today, providing a thorough and fair analysis of each as well as insight into their respective branches. To help us understand the differences between the two contrasting ideologies, Morgan Marietta employs an innovative metaphor of a tree—growth from ideological roots to a core value, expanding into a problem that creates the competing branches of the ideology. This approach suggests a clear way to explain and compare the two ideologies in an effort to enhance democratic debate. A Citizen’s Guide to American Political Ideologies is a brief, non-technical and conversational overview of one of the most important means of understanding political rhetoric and policy debates in America today.

Author : E.H.H. Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134763887

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The Crisis of Conservatism by E.H.H. Green Pdf

The Crisis of Conservatism 1880-1914 offers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880-1914 and comes to the startling conclusion that, but for the intervention of the First World War, there may well have been a 'Strange Death of Tory England.'

Author : Peter Viereck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351526456

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Conservatism Revisited by Peter Viereck Pdf

Peter Viereck, poet and historian, is one of the principle theoreticians of conservatism in modern American political thought. In this classic work, Viereck undertakes a penetrating and unorthodox analysis of that quintessential conservative, Prince Metternich, and offers evidence that cultural and political conservatism may perhaps be best adapted to sustain a free and reasonable society.According to Viereck's definition, conservatism is not the enemy of economic reform or social progress, nor is it the oppressive instrument of the privileged few. Although conservatism has been attacked from the left and often discredited by exploitation from the right, it remains the historic name for a point of view vital to contemporary society and culture. Divided into three parts, the book opens with a survey of conservatism in its cultural context of classicism and humanism. Rejecting the blind alley of reaction, Viereck calls for a discriminating set of principles that include preservation through reform, self-expression through self-restraint, a fruitful nostalgia for the permanent beneath the flux, and a preference for historical continuity over violent rupture.Viereck locates our idea of Western political unity in Metternich's Concert of Europe whose goal was a cosmopolitan Europe united in peace. This ideal was opposed by both the violent nationalism that resulted in Nazism and the socialist internationalism that became a tool of Soviet Russian expansionism. While not ignoring the extremely negative aspects of Metternich's legacy, Viereck focuses on his attempts to tame the bellicosity of European nationalism and his little-known efforts to reform and modernize the Hapsburg Empire.

Author : C. P. Middendorp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110800340

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Progressiveness and Conservatism by C. P. Middendorp Pdf

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Author : David T. Koyzis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830872060

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Political Visions & Illusions by David T. Koyzis Pdf

What you believe about politics matters. The decades since the Cold War, with new alignments of post–9/11 global politics and the chaos of the late 2010s, are swirling with alternative visions of political life, ranging from ethnic nationalism to individualistic liberalism. Political ideologies are not merely a matter of governmental efficacy, but are intrinsically and inescapably religious: each carries certain assumptions about the nature of reality, individuals and society, as well as a particular vision for the common good. These fundamental beliefs transcend the political sphere, and the astute Christian observer can discern the ways—sometimes subtle, sometimes not—in which ideologies are rooted in idolatrous worldviews. In this freshly updated, comprehensive study, political scientist David Koyzis surveys the key political ideologies of our era, including liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, democracy, and socialism. Koyzis gives each philosophy careful analysis and fair critique, unpacking the worldview issues inherent to each and pointing out essential strengths and weaknesses, as well as revealing the "narrative structure" of each—the stories they tell to make sense of public life and the direction of history. Koyzis concludes by proposing alternative models that flow out of Christianity's historic engagement with the public square, retrieving approaches for both individuals and the global, institutional church that hold promise for the complex political realities of the twenty-first century. Writing with broad international perspective and keen analytical insight, Koyzis is a sane and sensible guide for Christians working in the public square, culture watchers, political pundits, and all students of modern political thought.

Author : Noël O'Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : UOM:39015015210464

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Conservatism by Noël O'Sullivan Pdf

Author : Patrick Garry
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594034565

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Conservatism Redefined by Patrick Garry Pdf

After reaching high levels of public popularity in the 1980s and 1990s, political conservatism has become beset with criticism and disillusionment. As demonstrated by the 2008 election results, political conservatism has been blamed for an unpopular Iraq war, an economy nose diving into recession, and a barrage of high profile instances of corporate misbehavior. This crisis in the ideological identity of and public confidence in conservatism is partly due to conservatism itself. Contrary to the intellectual vibrancy that characterized the 1980s and 1990s, political conservatism in recent years has become complacent and dormant. It has been more focused on simply protecting political power than on reexamining its philosophical principles and policy prescriptions. Because of this failure to continually reexamine, conservatives have allowed their ideology to slip back into various ruts caused by certain historical deviations from the conservative creed. These deviations, beginning in the early twentieth century, mischaracterized conservatism as a special-interest defender of the wealthy and corporate class. The deviations also allowed conservatism to be miscast as a political creed that advocates aggressive U.S. intervention in the affairs of foreign nations. Perhaps because of all its successes, as well as the political influence it has been able to achieve, political conservatism in America has somewhat lost its foundational bearings. Its basic principles and ideological identity have been lost amidst the various political maneuverings and issues associated with partisan politics. Consequently, conservatives need to get their ideology back to a firm foundational setting, so as to allow it to once again provide a strong beacon of guidance to American society. In this book, Patrick Garry attempts to provide a clear definition and ideological identity to conservatism—an identity that not only connects conservatism to the past, but allows it to position itself for the challenges of the future. With a concise simplicity, Garry provides a definition of conservatism that relies on two fundamental propositions. Garry also argues that the focus of conservatism needs to be redirected toward the interests of the poor and disadvantaged. As Garry argues, it is conservatism and not liberalism that offers the best hope for the poor and disadvantaged to prosper in America. This new focus of conservatism will allow conservatism to flourish as a governing ideology.

Author : Andreĭ I︠U︡rʹevich Melʹvilʹ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : UVA:X001861820

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Conservatism in U.S. Ideology and Politics by Andreĭ I︠U︡rʹevich Melʹvilʹ Pdf

Author : Morgan Marietta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136593666

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A Citizen’s Guide to American Ideology by Morgan Marietta Pdf

This book explains the two dominant political ideologies in America today, providing an analysis of each as well as insight into their respective branches. The author employs a metaphor of a tree - growth from ideological roots to a core value, expanding into a problem that creates the competing branches of the ideology. This approach suggests a way to explain and compare the two ideologies to enhance democratic debate.

Author : Peter Dorey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : 0755622235

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British Conservatism by Peter Dorey Pdf

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Conservative Philosophy and Inequality -- Chapter 2. Neo-liberal Conservatism - Unlimited Inequality -- Chapter 3. One Nation Conservatism - Bounded Inequality -- Chapter 4. Middle Class Acceptance of Inequality -- Chapter 5. Working Class Acceptance of Inequality -- Chapter 6. British Acceptance of Inequality and Conservative Political Success -- Conclusion.

Author : Vincent Geoghegan,Rick Wilford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317804338

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Political Ideologies by Vincent Geoghegan,Rick Wilford Pdf

Now in its fourth edition, Political Ideologies: An Introduction continues to be the best introductory textbook for students of political ideologies. Completely revised and updated throughout, this edition features: A comprehensive introduction to all of the most important ideologies Brand new chapters on multiculturalism, anarchism, and the growing influence of religion on politics More contemporary examples of twenty-first-century iterations of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, fascism, green political theory, nationalism, and feminism Enhanced discussion of the end of ideology debates and emerging theories of ideological formation Six new contributors. Accessible and packed with both historical and contemporary examples, this is the most useful textbooks for scholars and students of political ideologies. The contributors to this volume have all taught or carried out research at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy of Queen’s University, Belfast, or have close research connections with the School.

Author : E. H. H. Green
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191069031

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Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century by E. H. H. Green Pdf

John Stuart Mill described the Conservatives as 'the stupidest party', yet they governed the UK for nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century. Conservative leaders typically have been and are explicitly anti-intellectual, yet the party is not without an intellectual history of its own. Ideologies of Conservatism charts developments and changes in the nature of Conservative political thought and the meaning of Conservatism throughout the twentieth century. Ewen Green's penetrating study explores the Conservative mind from the Edwardian crisis under Balfour to the Thatcherite 1980s and beyond. It examines how Conservative thinkers, politicians, and activists sought to define the problems they faced, what they thought they were arguing against, and what audiences they were seeking to reach. This is the only study which blends the history of Conservative thought with the party's political action, and it offers significant new insights into the political culture of the 'Conservative Century'.