Four ways in which the new right are neo-liberal.
- Minimal role for the state regulating industry
- Low taxation - corporate and income
- Welfare kept to a minimum - disincentive to work.
- Support free trade in Europe
Four ways in which the New Right are neo-conservative
- Traditional position regarding morality and lifestyles
- Authoritarian stance on law and order
- Opposition to excessive immigration and cultural diversity - Enoch Powell
- Opposition to European political integration.
3 advantages of private property?
- People enjoy their property therefore have a respect for others
- Acknowledge it must be safeguarded
- They have a stake in society
* * Promotes values/respect for law/ authority && Social Order.
What does private property provide ?
Security in an uncertain and unpredictable world
Sense of assurance/ something to fall back on.
What is private property an extension of?
Why is common ownership bad?
Extension of personality
Burglary is more than a crime is personal violation
Possessions reflect personality.
Common ownership is appalling because it creates a soulless and depersonalised society.
Conservative view regarding human nature.
Human nature is imperfect -
they seek the security of knowing their place.
Where is crime rooted?
Crime is rooted in the individual not in social inequality
Therefore there needs to be strong deterrents in place.
Hobbes humans seek “power after power”
What did Hobbes advance regarding liberty?
Order?
Prepare to sacrifice individual liberty in favour of social order.
Order ensures life is stable and predictable, provides security in an uncertain world.
Authoritarianism
Belief in the practise of government from above, in which authority is exercised over a population with or without its consent.
Elite are ordained to rule and need to assert their authority to keep other members is society in line.
Modern conservatives have rejected Burkes natural aristocracy in favour of meritocracy.
Individualism
Reaction towards collectivism. People achieve their goals better collectively than individually.
Conservatives argue they have a duty to create conditions in which an individual can flourish.
What conditions does the government need it create to ensure individuals can flourish?
- Economic certainty
- Stability
- Low tax
- Secure international environment
positive liberty
Provision of opportunities / choice for individuals and families to achieve goals to their abilities without hindrance.
Three ways in which to promote individualism and entrepreneurial-ship.
- State justified in curtailing freedom if it promotes individualism
- State give police powers - ensure safety - breed entrepreneurs
- Remove workers rights - employee more workers.
Traditional Conservatism.
- Desires to conserve - defend existing social and political institutions.
- Suspicious of abstract principles
- Places faith in tradition and experience
- Social duty
- Pragmatic intervention
- Keynesian demand (50/60s) & some economic planning.
Thatchers government
- ideological blueprint - new right
- Radical
- Limited state
- Rugged individualism/personal development
- Free markets - create thriving enterprise culture
- Attack the dependancy culture - individuals solve economic and social problems.
protectionism
States advances for British Exports but is unfavourable towards imports.
Ensures it by having high tariffs and low quotas
- Recession
Examples of how Thatcher ensured free enterprise in the economic sphere.
- Reduced taxation
- Sale of council houses
- ‘Role back the frontiers of the state’
- Rejected Keynesian economics in favour of supply side economics and free markets.
How has David Cameron and Nick Clegg ensured free enterprise?
- Cut corporation tax
- Cut income tax
Thatcher - Social Sphere
- Official secrets acts - civil servants were liable to prosecution
- Tighter immigration controls
- Increased police powers
- Section 28
- Rights of trade unions reduced
economic liberalism
Belief in the market as a self regulating mechanism that tends naturally to deliver general prosperity and opportunities for all.
Who influenced the economic policy of Thatcher ?
Milton and Hayek Friedman.
Why did Thatcher favour Supply Side Economics?
To facilitate the creation and operation of a dynamic market economy and a thriving enterprise culture.
Describe how the Thatcher government may have been socially authoritarian ?
-section 28 etc etc
What is the grass roots campaign ?
Linked to the big society
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