CONS state
Cards (9)
- Traditional, One Nation and Neo-conservatives
- Society a source of leadership
- Aristocracy the "natural leaders", authority not from the consent of the people
- Taxation should fund state intervention
- All conservatives see private property as an essential part of the economy, gives individuals a stake in society + provides psychological security
- Traditional and One Nation
- Organic paternalists who seek to solve social instability and disorder through benevolent welfarism.
- Traditional and Neo-Conservatives
- Organic authoritarian -> oppose supranationality and have a hawkish foreign policy
- Traditional, One Nation and Neo-conservatives
- Hobbes -> state arises from a ‘social contract’ in which subjects cede freedoms to an autocratic monarch to guarantee the rule of law
- Burke -> state ruled by the hereditary elite, as they are wiser + stronger
- Oakeshott -> sceptic of rationalism
- One Nation
- More accepting of a government by consent and a more enabling state
- Paternalistic - prefer a conciliary foreign policy approach to defend nationalistic values
- Against supranationality as it threatens national sovereignty
- One Nation caucus 2019 -> “We believe the state must have an active role in fighting injustices”
- Neo-conservatives
- Agreed with the noblesse oblige of welfare provision but thought One Nation conservatives went too far and created a dependency culture.
- Brand the social and sexual revolution as immoral, believing it harms traditional values.
- Promote anti-permissiveness.
- Neo-liberals
- State should not infringe on personal libety
- Believe in negative freedoms
- Prefer atomistic society and a minimal state
- Distrust institutions like the EU as threats to individual freedom and autonomy
- Neo-liberals
- Rand and Nozick -> opposed to state intervention as it creates a dependency culture and undermines individual freedoms
- Nozick -> advocated for the legalisation of hard drugs and prostitution which opposed the religious morality of neo-conservatives