Conservative Ideology In The Making

Author : Iván Zoltán Dénes
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211787
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservative Ideology in the Making written by Iván Zoltán Dénes and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Patrick M. Garry
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594033471
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatism Redefined written by Patrick M. Garry and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, conservatism possessed a vibrancy that resulted from spirited intellectual inquiry and open debate. However, in the years leading up to the 2008 elections, this energy seemed to fade. It was as if the conservative movement became less concerned with ideas and more concerned with the preservation of political power. In Conservatism Redefined, Patrick Garry examines how Conservatives dug themselves into this hole, and how they can climb out. However, unlike many conservative pundits, Garry does not propose a simple, -rediscover our roots- credo. Instead, Conservatism Redefined reexamines and renews conservative ideology, explaining how the classical ideals of conservatism can be employed in new ways to address the concerns of citizens across the ethnic, generational, and economic spectrum. Conservatism in America is currently mired in its worst crisis since the 1960s. To be sure, the crisis accompanied the declining public opinion of the Bush presidency and the resurgence of liberalism and large, aggressive government in a time of crisis. But, as Patrick Garry explains, this does not mean that conservatism has been defeated as an ideology, it means it must be redefined.

Author : Bernard L. Brock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461639077
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Political Ideology written by Bernard L. Brock and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of Political Ideology explores the erosion of ties among ideology, language, and political action. Analyzing political language strategies, it shows how to dissect language so we can better understand a speaker's ideology. The authors define four political positions—radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary—and apply their techniques to contemporary issues such as the war on terrorism. They emphasize the dangers of staying trapped in political gridlock with no consensus for governmental direction and propose that the ability to identify and bridge positions can help political communicators toward constructing coalitions and building support for political action.

Author : Jeffrey Hart
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497646782
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the American Conservative Mind written by Jeffrey Hart and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Review has been the leading conservative national magazine since it was founded in 1955, and in that capacity it has played a decisive role in shaping the conservative movement in the United States. In The Making of the American Conservative Mind, Jeffrey Hart provides an authoritative and high-spirited history of how the magazine has come to define and defend conservatism for the past fifty years. He also gives a firsthand account of the thought and sometimes colorful personalities—including James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, Russell Kirk, Frank Meyer, William Rusher, Priscilla Buckley, Gerhart Niemeyer, and, of course, the magazine’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr.—who contributed to National Review’s life and wide influence. As Hart sees it, National Review has regularly veered toward ideology, but it has also regularly corrected its course toward, in Buckley’s phrase, a “politics of reality.” Its catholicity and originality—attributable to Buckley’s magnanimity and sense of showmanship—has made the magazine the most interesting of its kind in the nation, concludes Hart. His highly readable and occasionally contrarian history, the first history of National Review yet published, marks another milestone in our understanding of how the conservatism now so influential in American political life draws from, and in some ways repudiates, the intellectual project that National Review helped launch a half century ago.

Author : M. Morton Auerbach
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conservative Illusion written by M. Morton Auerbach and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : All Points Books
ISBN 13 : 1250170737
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatism written by Roger Scruton and published by All Points Books. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “...one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read...the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas...” —Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal A brief magisterial introduction to the conservative tradition by one of Britain’s leading intellectuals. In Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers the reader an invitation into the world of political philosophy by explaining the history and evolution of the conservative movement over the centuries. With the clarity and authority of a gifted teacher, he discusses the ideology's perspective on civil society, the rule of law, freedom, morality, property, rights, and the role of the state. In a time when many claim that conservatives lack a unified intellectual belief system, this book makes a very strong case to the contrary, one that politically-minded readers will find compelling and refreshing. Scruton analyzes the origins and development of conservatism through the philosophies and thoughts of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and Milton Friedman, among others. He shows how conservative ideas have influenced the political sector through the careers of a diverse cast of politicians, such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Disraeli, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He also takes a close look at the changing relationship between conservative politics, capitalism, and free markets in both the UK and the US. This clear, incisive guide is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Western politics and policies, now and over the last three centuries.

Author : Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400848970
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Flight written by Kevin M. Kruse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate." In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms. Challenging the conventional wisdom that white flight meant nothing more than a literal movement of whites to the suburbs, this book argues that it represented a more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, Kruse demonstrates that traditional elements of modern conservatism, such as hostility to the federal government and faith in free enterprise, underwent important transformations during the postwar struggle over segregation. Likewise, white resistance gave birth to several new conservative causes, like the tax revolt, tuition vouchers, and privatization of public services. Tracing the journey of southern conservatives from white supremacy to white suburbia, Kruse locates the origins of modern American politics. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : Peter Viereck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351526448
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatism Revisited written by Peter Viereck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Caroline A. Bartel
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135599637
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and the Modern Organization written by Caroline A. Bartel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity and the Modern Organization presents a lively exchange of ideas among psychology and management scholars on the realities of modern organizational life and their effect on the identities that organizations and their members cultivate. This book bridges the domains of psychology and management to facilitate a multi-disciplinary, multi-level

Author : Brian R. Farmer
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781413769050
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contradictions in Conservatism written by Brian R. Farmer and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Contradictions in Conservatism, Dr. Farmer has provided a scathing polemic against conservatism in the United States, both the ideology and the policies that have emanated from that ideology. The political socialization process that produces political ideologies is explained along with the different ideological elements that make up American conservatism. Farmer reviews all of the major ideological segments of conservatism and illuminates their problems and contradictions. Farmer also includes a discussion the policies that conservatives have championed in several major policy areas, including the disastrous policies of the George W. Bush Administration, perhaps the most ideologically driven administration in American history. Farmer provides those interested in American Politics with a tool that helps explain the contradictions in conservatism, both in an ideological sense, and in a policy sense, and help the readers understand why conservatism does not have all of the right answers for America. The discussion is based primarily on facts and scholarly research, however, rather than ideological rhetoric, making the book much different and more valuable than the typical ideological ranting of todayas political editorial writers. Contradictions in Conservatism is a useful addition to anyoneas collection if they seek ammunition in explaining the disastrous policies pursued by conservatives and the inherent contradictions in conservative ideology.