conservative ideology
Preference for tradition
Conservative ideology centers on preserving established institutions, traditions, and social structures against rapid change.
It typically favors limited government intervention in markets, traditional moral values, and gradual rather than revolutionary reform.
His conservative ideology made him skeptical of the proposed social programs.
The term spans a spectrum—from fiscal conservatives focused on economic policy to social conservatives concerned with cultural issues.
In American politics, conservative ideology often combines free-market economics with traditional positions on family, religion, and national identity.
- classical liberalismDoctrine of minimal governance
- limited governmentOfficially bounded political authority
- family valuesBeliefs prioritizing domestic bonds
- rule of lawSupremacy of established laws
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
Ronald Reagan · traditional marriage · nuclear family · federalism · property rights · personal responsibility · religious freedom · Western civilization · originalism · Margaret Thatcher · tax cuts · Barry Goldwater · silent majority · constitutionalism · John Adams · privatization · patriotism · national sovereignty
conservative ideologyprogressivism
Philosophy advocating societal reform
leftism · liberalism · socialism · radical left · democratic socialism
conservative ideologyprogressivism
Philosophy advocating societal reform
radicalism · reformism · utopianism · modernism · futurism
conservative ideologysocialism
Communal economic control
collectivism · communism · redistributionism · Marxist economics · Marxism
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