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  Conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conservatism as a philosophy is much older than the left-right division, and it can include adherents from both.
Since conservatives believe tradition supercedes the political process, the laws and constitutions of liberal democracies that permit behavior that conflicts with traditional values cause friction in their eyes.
The term 'conservatism' is also used in the history of technology to describe the reluctance - on grounds of cost, effort and disruption - to replace a functioning technology by another.
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 Conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Conservatism can be contrasted on the one hand to radical libertarianism or anarchism, and on the other to such statist movements as fascism and the authoritarian (as opposed to libertarian) versions of communism, and socialism.
Contemporary political conservatism — the actual politics of people and parties professing to be conservative — in most western democratic countries is an amalgam of social and institutional conservatism, generally combined with fiscal conservatism, and usually containing elements of broader economic conservatism as well.
Conservatism, at its root, is an attitude of political and social quietism.
www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Conservative   (7310 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - conservatism (Political Science: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
conservatism was being redirected by erstwhile liberal manufacturing and professional groups who had achieved many of their political aims and had become more concerned with preserving them from attack by groups not so favored.
Conservatism lost its predominantly agrarian and semifeudal bias, and accepted democratic suffrage, advocated economic laissez-faire, and opposed extension of the welfare state.
Conservatism should be distinguished both from a reactionary desire for the past and the radical right-wing ideology of fascism and National Socialism.
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 John Kekes - What is Conservatism? - Utopia Online Library
It is political because it aims at political arrangements that make a society good, and it is moral because it holds that a society is good if it enables people living in it to live good lives, that is, lives that are personally satisfying and beneficial for others.
Conservatism, like liberalism and socialism, has different versions, partly because conservatives often disagree with each other about the particular political arrangements that ought to be conserved.1 There is no disagreement among them, however, that the reasons for or against those arrangements are to be found in the history of the society whose arrangements they are.
Second, pluralistic conservatism is most receptive to the view that the best guide to the political arrangements that a society ought to have beyond the minimum level is the history of the society.
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 Conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In terms of the political spectrum, Conservatism can be contrasted on the one hand to radical right-wing political philosophies or movements such as fascism and to certain reactionary movements, and on the other to progressivism, liberalism, and socialism.
Social conservatism and an adherence to certain religious or moral traditions may be a component of politics that are otherwise generally considered left-wing.
Contemporary political conservatism -- the actual politics of people and parties professing to be conservative -- in most western democratic countries is an amalgam of social and institutional conservatism, generally combined with fiscal conservatism, and often containing elements of business conservatism as well.
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 Bambooweb: Conservative
Conservatism can be contrasted on the one hand to radical libertarianism or anarchism, and on the other to such statist movements as fascism, communism, and socialism.
Contemporary political conservatism -- the actual politics of people and parties professing to be conservative -- in most western democratic countries is an amalgam of social and institutional conservatism, generally combined with fiscal conservatism, and usually containing elements of broader economic conservatism as well.
The origins of conservatism in the U.S. can be traced from the Whigs of George Washington through the Federalists of John Adams, and the Republicans of Abraham Lincoln (the ideological hiers to the Federalist legacy).
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 What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Conservatism constantly changes, always adapting itself to provide the minimum amount of freedom that is required to hold together a dominant coalition in the society.
But whereas the goal of conservatism throughout history has primarily been to suppress the mob of common people, the conservatism of the late 20th century was especially vituperative in its campaigns against the relatively autonomous democratic cultures of the professions.
Conservatism has gotten so out of sync with the conditions of a modern economy that significant numbers of wealthy people, especially young entrepreneurs who live and breathe the liberal culture that makes successes like theirs possible, would be happy to help build the institutions that a democratic society needs.
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 Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition - A Summary : Melbourne Indymedia
When secondary issues are separated from the ideological core of conservatism, there is revealed a core ideology of resistance to change in society, which seems to transcend changing times and define the core mind set of conservatism.
Conservatism in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences as "an attitude of opposition to disruptive change in the social, economic, legal, religious, political, or cultural order" (p.
Political conservatives' heightened affinities for tradition, law and order, and strict forms of parental and legal punishment (including the death penalty) are partially related to feelings of fear and threat.
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 AMERICAN POLITICAL CONSERVATISM AND LIBERALISM
This is a short description of American political conservatism and liberalism.
Conservatism is the belief that government at all levels—particularly the Federal Government—should be as small as possible and taxes need to be kept low.
This element of conservatism is based on the issues of values, morality and ethics.
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 American conservatism 1945-1995 by Irving Kristol
The trouble with traditional conservatism, especially those segments dominated by a purely economic conservatism, was that it tended to be libertarian and even secular-minded when it came to the kinds of moral and social issues that agitated Christian conservatives.
To some degree, this is because Christian conservatism is a "movement," not simply a political party, and like all movements of this kind it has its various factions, some of whom are more committed to demonstrating the steadfastness of their Christian faith than to exercising political influence.
So the rise of Christian political conservatism may turn out to be a prelude to something far more important, involving the place of religion in American life, including American public life.
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 Conservatism-Liberalism-Socialism
Conservatism, liberalism and socialism can be called ideologies, as they constitute “comprehensive set of beliefs and attitudes about social and economic institutions and processes” (Lawson, 44).
The view of human nature according to conservatism is not egalitarian, in the sense that some people, placed in society, are more capable than others to contribute to its development and they are the ones to be placed in positions of authority.
Conservatism evokes strong feelings of patriotism, since support for the established institutions are greatly promoted and each person serves his/her country with consistency and loyalty.
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 conservatism --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Conservatism is a preference for the historically inherited rather than the abstract and ideal.
Whereas Burkean conservatism was evolutionary, the conservatism of Maistre was counterrevolutionary.
The 19th century was in many ways antithetical to conservatism, both as a political philosophy and as a program of particular parties identified with conservative interests.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9117289   (776 words)

  
 Arie Kruglanski - Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition
Jost, J.T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A.W., & Sulloway, F.J. Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.
Greenberg, J., & Jonas, E. Psychological Motives and Political Orientation—The Left, the Right, and the Rigid: Comment on Jost et al.
Jost, J.T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A.W., & Sulloway, F.J. (2003).Exceptions That Prove the Rule—Using a Theory of Motivated Social Cognition to Account for Ideological Incongruities and Political Anomalies: Reply to Greenberg and Jonas (2003).
www.wam.umd.edu /~hannahk/conservatism.html   (276 words)

  
 Political Conservatism is a Mental Illness
And yet political conservatism, the mental illness which is the source of all of the above patent absurdities, has been sweeping this country.
Wedge issues and demagoguery are how political conservatism gain a foothold in normal persons, many of whom would not adopt right-wing politics as an ideology if that ideology were presented to them all at once, in its entirety.
As with any fringe cultic belief system, political conservatives are repeatedly told that they cannot trust the mainstream media, and should cut off contact with the mainstream world and retreat into friendship and fellowship only with those who share this belief system.
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 conservatism on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Conservatism in accounting Part II: evidence and research opportunities.
Conservatism in accounting Part I: explanations and implications.
The inventor of modern conservatism: Disraeli and us.(Benjamin Disraeli)(Cover Story)(Biography)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/conservatsm.asp   (644 words)

  
 Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition - AZplace
According to a research study performed by the American Psychological Association, the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality.
The research on political conservatism as motivated social cognition has been accepted for publication by the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, and the American Sociological Association.
It turns out conservatism is product of various psychological conditions that, when left unchecked, prevent the inflicted from every experiencing a true feeling of content.
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 What is Political Conservatism
Spokesmen for conservatism reiterate repeatedly about how conservatism is defined by tax cuts instead of paying down the National Debt.
I see my position as more consistently conservative than party line Conservatism and the way I understand it, party line Conservatives view me as Liberal because Moderates are said to lean the way the wind blows not making strong stands on anything.
I suppose that my Conservatism is a paradox as is the Conservatism of the Conservative Movement.
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 Conservatism
Additional Information: Political conservatism is an orientation which holds that Man being fallible, tradition is an important transmitter of wisdom, and that maintenance of the established order with moderate reform is preferable to utopian idealism and revolutionary change.
A 350,000 supporter grassroots lobbying group that seeks to encourage greater responsiveness by, and an overall reduction in the size and scope of, government at all levels.
Articles and links devoted to traditional conservatism in the sense of conserving the best of the past in nature, culture, and religion, as opposed to ideology or empire.
www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Society/Politics/Conservatism   (618 words)

  
 GOP Bloggers: Political Conservatism vs. Legal Conservatism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
There is a difference between being politically conservative and being legally conservative.
A political conservative might believe in limiting government and maintaining social traditions, but few conservatives would argue that those beliefs qualify one for a seat on the Supreme Court.
They are to be given to the nine Americans most capable of protecting the Constitution from political attack.
www.gopbloggers.org /mt/archives/002272.html   (299 words)

  
 Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Political Science: Political Philosophy: Conservatism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sites devoted to the philosophical underpinnings of conservatism and the conservative movement, and of the variant and derivative schools such as classical or paleo- conservatism, neoconservatism, liberal agrarianism, aristocratic legitimism, paleolibertarianism, or integral traditionalism.
Discusses the history of conservatism and liberalism in the United States, and argues that conservatives should, but do not, appeal to the principles of the American Revolution.
Cultural Conservatism  · A weekly compendium of traditionalist thought on politics, philosophy, history, and the arts.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=226346   (298 words)

  
 Political Conservatism Works?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
That is why political parties spend so much money on billboards and lawn signs and why politicians are willing to stand for hours in the rain to shake commuters’ hands at the train station or eat ethnic food in front of the cameras until it comes out their ears.
I can envision them running a successful political campaign, centering on issues that appeal to racial minorities and government provided low-cost medical care for seniors — if they get another candidate with Clinton’s charisma.
When the guy strode to the podium to give a speech, he looked as if he had been sent from central casting.) Don’t forget: We are not far from the day that the baby boomers will be senior citizens.
www.catholicexchange.com /vm/index.asp?art_id=17329   (1075 words)

  
 FindLaw's Writ - Dean: What Is Conservatism?
The public position of political conservatism is certainly clear.
As for George W. Bush's conservatism, Boaz observed, "It's a far cry from the individualist, free-market, less-government conservatism of Barry Goldwater, the 1964 presidential nominee and author of The Conscience of a Conservative, who inspired a generation of conservative activists, and Ronald Reagan, who later put into practice much of Goldwater's agenda."
John W. Dean, a FindLaw columnist, is a former counsel to the President.
writ.news.findlaw.com /dean/20041217.html   (1291 words)

  
 Political conservatism stifles open sex talk: academic : Media Releases : News : The University of Melbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Political conservatism stifles open sex talk: academic : Media Releases : News : The University of Melbourne
A leading US gender studies expert claims post-election political conservatism in Australia and the US could hinder academic freedom to explore important sex and gender issues, including abortion.
Ms Nestle is particularly concerned that the current political climate in both Australia and the US will challenge the unfettered ability of academic researchers to explore issues about sex in history, and the way ideas about sexuality influence the present.
uninews.unimelb.edu.au /articleid_1947.html   (368 words)

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