Edexcel Politics 5. Conservatism and Liberalism

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Where elites decide what is best for non-elites regardless of the latter's wants

That which is closely associated with liberalism due to liberalism's emphasis on property as a representation of the individual in society, leading to a belief in free market trade and the 'trickle down' of wealth as being natural and rational

That individual who might have proposed a system of voting in which those with a university education received two votes

A modern liberal and founder of second-wave feminism who sought to emphasise equality of opportunity within a liberal constitutional framework, rejecting radical feminism and patriarchy

That which liberalism believes is inherently rational, thus causing people to realise that consensus is how best to solve problems

That, the three principles of which are; limited constitutional government, the dispersal and separation of powers, and formal equality

The subjective declaration and claim of how things ought to be and what is good, bad, right, or wrong

That branch of liberalism which found its roots in the structural changes to society wrought by industrialisation, urbanisation, and the development of democracy and socialism

A nineteenth century development of liberalism closely associated with John Stuart Mill that advocated developmental individualism, negative freedom, and self help

The earliest branch of liberalism, placing the highest value on individual rights and freedoms, as espoused by John Locke and the Enlightenment

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The popular conservative belief that decisions should be based on evidence gained through experience rather than theory, emphasising what is, rather than what should be

A twentieth century development of liberalism which countenanced greater state intervention to protect the vulnerable members of society by promoting positive freedom and a more collectivist system

That held important within conservatism due to it providing a religious-moral basis for binding individuals and curbing human imperfections

Those two ideologies which causes one-nation conservatism to further embrace unity, paternalism, welfarism, and a mixed economy after the First World War in alphabetical order

An aspect of the conservative tenet of human imperfection, that holds that humans naturally crave security and safety, placing more importance on social order than on individual liberty

An important modern liberal, known for promoting the idea of equal opportunity, and a greater role for the state in improving economic equality

That which conservative Harold Macmillan suggested finding between socialism and capitalism in order to unify the nation in the interwar period

The liberal idea of the equality held by people from birth, in that there are no inherited hierarchies, &c.

The view that society is very loose, consisting of autonomous individuals, as espoused by the new right but rejected by most conservatives

That event which helped birth conservatism by somewhat discrediting the Enlightenment monopoly on political thought