To what extent is the New Right internally coherent?
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- Created on: 18-05-16 13:04
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- To what extent is the New Right internally coherent?
- Society
- NC
- Organic society, whole more than parts
- NL
- 'No such thing as society' Thatcher
- Atomism
- NC
- State and Economy
- Both want free market
- NL
- Negative freedom
- State is realm of coercion and unfreedom
- Only exist to protect rights
- Invisible hand Smith, privitization
- Dynamism and equilibrium etc
- The free market will discipline
- NC
- Authoritarianism
- Minimal state intervention in economy
- Strong state for law and order
- Ascherson 'the trouble with a free market economy is that it takes so many police to make it work'
- Permissiveness 60s and crime
- Family institutions to restore order
- Both think intervention can cause dependency culture
- Equality
- NL
- Equal opportunity to rise and fall
- Meritocracy
- You are not fixed in social position
- NC
- Burke 'natural aristocracy'
- Leaders and followers
- Hierarchy is natural and desirable
- Burke 'natural aristocracy'
- Neither support equality of outcome
- NL
- Individual
- NL
- Resilient, self-seeking
- NC
- Psychologically, intellectually and morally imperfect
- 'Philosophy of human imperfection' O'Sullivan
- Oakeshott 'boundless and bottomless' sea of abstract thought
- 'Original sin' T.S Eliot
- 'Anomie' Durkheim
- Psychologically, intellectually and morally imperfect
- NL
- NL draws from Classical Liberalism and NR draws from Traditional Conservatism
- Society
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