LCW How and why have conservatives supported one nation principles 15 marks
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- Provides the justification for limited social and economical intervention.
- Mainly in the form of a qualified case for welfare provision.
- Key principles include paternalism, social duty as the price of privilege, moral responsibility and social cohesion within an organic society.
- How and why have conservatives supported One Nation principles? (15 marks)
- Their application in the form of social reform and welfare serves are in the long term interests of the wealthy and privileged.
- Helps to neutralise political discontent on the part of the weak and vulnerable.
- Social reform is preferable in order to avoid a social revolution.
- Helps to neutralise political discontent on the part of the weak and vulnerable.
- Moral justification as the wealthy and powerful owe their social position, to a significant degree, to the accident of birth.
- Implies both that a high social position entails social duties, notably those linked to eliminating poverty and supporting the disadvantaged.
- The poor are 'deserving', in the sense that they are not the architects of their own misfortune and cannot rectify their poverty through simple hard work and self-help.
- Noblesse oblige
- Implies both that a high social position entails social duties, notably those linked to eliminating poverty and supporting the disadvantaged.
- Their application in the form of social reform and welfare serves are in the long term interests of the wealthy and privileged.
- In practice this has led to support for limited social and economic intervention such as support for Keynesianism and the welfare state in post war Britain.
- Limited regulation of markets and higher rates of tax for high earners.
- How and why have conservatives supported One Nation principles? (15 marks)
- Their application in the form of social reform and welfare serves are in the long term interests of the wealthy and privileged.
- Helps to neutralise political discontent on the part of the weak and vulnerable.
- Social reform is preferable in order to avoid a social revolution.
- Helps to neutralise political discontent on the part of the weak and vulnerable.
- Moral justification as the wealthy and powerful owe their social position, to a significant degree, to the accident of birth.
- Implies both that a high social position entails social duties, notably those linked to eliminating poverty and supporting the disadvantaged.
- The poor are 'deserving', in the sense that they are not the architects of their own misfortune and cannot rectify their poverty through simple hard work and self-help.
- Noblesse oblige
- Implies both that a high social position entails social duties, notably those linked to eliminating poverty and supporting the disadvantaged.
- Their application in the form of social reform and welfare serves are in the long term interests of the wealthy and privileged.
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