A belief that strong central authority, imposed from above, is either desirable or necessary, and therefore demands unquestioning obedience
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New Right
An ideological trend within conservatism that embraces a blend of market individualism and social authoritarianism
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Tradition
Values, practises or institutions that have endured through time and, in particular, been passed down from one generation to the next
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Anomie
A weakening of values and normative rules, associated with feelings of isolation, loneliness and meaninglessness
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Organicism
A belief that society operates like an organism ir living entity, the whole being more than a collection of its individual parts
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Functionalism
The theory that social institutions and practises should be understood in terms of the functions they carry out in sustaining the larger social system
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Hierarchy
A gradation of social positions or status; hierarchy implies structural or fixed inequality in which position is inconnected with individual ability
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Natural Aristocracy
The idea that talent and leadership are innate or inbred qualities that cannot be acquired through effort or self-advancement
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Authority
The right to exert influence over others by virtue of an aknowledged obligation to obey
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Property
The ownership of physical goods or wealth, whether by private individuals, groups of people or the state
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Privatization
The transfer of state assets from the public to the private sector, reflecting a contradiction of the state`s responsibilities
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Populism
A belief that popular instincts and wishes are the principle legitimate guide to political action, often reflecting distrust of or hostility towards political elites
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Christian Democracy
An ideological tradition within European Conservatism that is characterized by a commitment to the social market and qualified economic intervention
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Social Market
An economy that is structured by market principles but which operates in the context of a society in which cohesion is maintained through a comprehensive welfare system and effective public services
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Economic Liberalism
A belief in the market as a self-regulating mechanism that tends naturally to deliver general prosperity and oppurtunities for all
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Neoliberalism
An updated version of classical political economy that is dedicated to market individualism and minimal statism
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Neoconservatism
A modern version of social conservatism that emphasises the need to restore social order, return to traditional or family values, or to revitalize nationalism
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Permissiveness
The willingness to allow people to make their own moral choices; permissiveness suggests that there are no authorititive values
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Washington Consensus
A neoliberal framework embraced since the 1980s by key Washington-based international institutions, reflecting support for fiscal discipline, privatization, and financial and trade liberalization
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Civic Conservatism
A form of conservatism, rooted in social conservatism, that calls for a transformation of the civic culture to counter balance what are seen as the "excesses" of state control and the free market
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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An ideological trend within conservatism that embraces a blend of market individualism and social authoritarianism
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New Right
Card 3
Front
Values, practises or institutions that have endured through time and, in particular, been passed down from one generation to the next
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Card 4
Front
A weakening of values and normative rules, associated with feelings of isolation, loneliness and meaninglessness
Back
Card 5
Front
A belief that society operates like an organism ir living entity, the whole being more than a collection of its individual parts
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